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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Date: ca. 1749–50
Type: Print
Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of four (Robison)
Department: Drawings and Prints
Institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Object number: 37.45.3(33)
Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937

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