Carceri Series Plate II

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1745

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vertical Rectangle. Grandiose arcades with instruments of torture and fragments of classical sculpture. Address of the artist below. Top right, Calcografia number 350

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Title: Carceri Series Plate II
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
Date Created: 1745
Location Created: Italy
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/122998
Medium: Etching
Credit line: Gift of Gertrude W. Lewis

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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