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Carceri Series, Plate XV
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1745
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. An enormous pier in the center foreground supports four vaults, pierced by a circular window at their junction. Stairways and galleries in the background. Upper center, Calcografia number 363.
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- Title: Carceri Series, Plate XV
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
- Date Created: 1745
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/122991
- Medium: Etching on white laid paper
- Credit line: Gift of Gertrude W. Lewis
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