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Title Page to the Carceri (The Prisons)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1749–50
Medium/Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 71.8 x 52.4 cm (28 1/4 x 20 5/8 in.)
Platemark: 54.6 x 41.3 cm (21 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 54.6 x 41.3 cm (21 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession NumberM25419
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 001, i/iv; Focillon 24; Robison 29, i/ix (First Edition, First Issue, 1749-1750); Ficacci 110
State
i
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1914, sold by Mrs. A. M. B. Smith, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1914)