The Round Tower

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761

Details

Title: The Round Tower
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1761
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left margin: “Piranesi F.”
Set or Series Title: Carceri d’Invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi, Archit[etto] Vene[ziano]
Print State: Fifth of six 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: No watermark
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: 543 mm x 412 mm (21.38 in. x 16.22 in.). Sheet dimensions: 704 mm x 488 mm (27.72 in. x 19.21 in.).
Bibliography: Focillon 26; Hind 3; Wilton-Ely 28 and p. 52 with remark: “Rusticated tower at the center, with a large barred window, supporting arches and gangways”
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.3

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