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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform (Plate X of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
Dimensions
Sheet: 56.4 x 79.7 cm (22 3/16 x 31 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 41.5 x 54.9 cm (16 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 41.5 x 54.9 cm (16 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11681
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 010, ii/iii; Focillon 33; Robison 36, v/vi (Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 119
State
v
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1921, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1921)