The Pier with Chains

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761

Details

Title: The Pier with Chains
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1761
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower right: “Piranesi F”
Set or Series Title: Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]
Print State: Second of three states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), before 1953
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper. Watermark: Hind #7. Watermark: “house and bird”
Keywords: architecture, prisons
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: First Paris edition, 1800–1809
Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 507 mm x 707 mm (19.96 in. x 27.83 in.). Sheet dimensions: 411 mm x 522 mm (16.18 in. x 20.55 in.).
Bibliography: Focillon 39; Hind 16; Wilton-Ely 41 and p. 77 as: “Monumental space with a large banded column on the left and a lamp suspended from a pulley in the middle foreground”
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.16

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