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Carceri Series, Plate XVI
Giovanni Battista Piranesi1745
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Horizontal rectangle. Arcades with staircases in the background, before which are monuments bearing pseudo-Latin inscriptions. Numerous figures in the scene. Upper center, Calcografia number 364.
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- Title: Carceri Series, Plate XVI
- Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778
- Date Created: 1745
- Location Created: Italy
- Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/122992
- Medium: Etching
- Credit line: Gift of Gertrude W. Lewis
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