Updated 10 January 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
<The Prisons (Le Carceri)> (1st edition): (13) Well
Date | ca. 1758-1760; first published in ca. 1749-1750 |
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Materials and Techniques | etching, engraving, scratching, burnishing and lavis on laid paper |
Watermarks | fleur-de-lis in a single circle |
Size(cm) | 41.1 x 56.0 (plate); 51.8 x 74.3 (paper) |
State | 1st edition, 3rd issue (ca. 1758-1760) (Robison); Published by Giovanni Bouchard, Rome |
Inscriptions | Signed at bottom right: Piranesi f. |
Standard ref. | Focillon 36; Hind 13 (1/3); Robison 39 (1/6); Wilton-Ely 38. |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1984-0011 |
Provenance
Mary Stansbury Ruiz; George Vanderbilt; Galleria Grafica, Tokyo; Purchased by the NMWA, 1984.
Exhibition History
- 1987
- “Fantasy” in European Prints, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 6 August 1987 - 6 September 1987, cat. no. 3 First Edition (13)
- 1989
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 21 May 1989 - 25 June 1989, cat. no. 43-1
- 2012
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition] The Prisons by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Prints and Drawings Gallery, 6 March 2012 - 20 May 2012, cat. no. 11
Bibliography
- 1918
- Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son œuvre. Paris, 1918, pp. 12-14.
- 1922
- Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study. 1922, (reprint ed., London, 1978), pp. 24-29.
- 1976
- Salamon, Teresa Villa. Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Grafica, Ⅱ-2. Calcografia Nationale, Roma, 1976, pp. 29-41.
- 1986
- Robison, Andrew. Piranesi, Early Architectural Fantasies, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C./Chicago, 1986, pp. 139-210.
- 1988
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 19 (1984), 1988, Yukiyama, Koji. New Acquisitions 1984. pp.16-20, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1984. pp. 32-43, repr.