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Maker(s):Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
Culture:Italian (1720-1778)
Title:Interior of a Prison from the series The Carceri [The Prisons]
Date Made:1750 or earlier
Type:Print
Materials:Etching in black ink on ivory laid paper
Place Made:Europe; Italy; Rome
Measurements:mat: 22 x 28 in.; sheet: 22 1/2 in x 17 1/8 in; 57.15 cm x 43.4975 cm; image: 21 3/8 x 15 5/8 in.; 54.2925 x 39.6875 cm
Narrative Inscription:  INSCRIPTION: verso (pencil): Piranesi etching -- Carceri series / Purchased after 1959 / Dwight Fund II
Accession Number:  MH 1959.62.P.RII
Credit Line:Purchase with Dwight Fund II
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Sketchy rendering of the interior of a building with many levels and sets of stairs.

Tags:
sketches; interiors; buildings; stairs

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