Carceri Series, Plate X

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1745

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Horizontal rectangle. A broad, vaulted chamber with figures being tortured in the left foreground. Bridges connect galleries in the background. Upper right, calcografia number 358.

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Title: Carceri Series, Plate X
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
Date Created: 1745
Location Created: Italy
Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/123007
Medium: Etching
Credit line: Gift of Gertrude W. Lewis

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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