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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
Object Place: China

Medium/Technique Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
Dimensions Sheet: 55.9 x 69.6 cm (22 x 27 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 41.2 x 54.8 cm (16 1/4 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Miss Sally Dodge
Accession Number1983.236
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hind 010, iii/iii; Focillon 33; Robison 36, vi/vi (later printings of Fifth Edition through Sixth Edition, mid-1830s and later); Ficacci 119
State iv
Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceSally Dodge, Cambridge, Massachusetts; her gift to the MFA May 11, 1983