The Sawhorse

Giovanni Battista Piranesi1761

Details

Title: The Sawhorse
Creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date Created: 1761
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “C. 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: “house and bird”. Watermark: Hind #7
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: 414 mm x 560 mm (16.3 in. x 22.05 in.). Sheet dimensions: 511 mm x 711 mm (20.12 in. x 27.99 in.).
Bibliography: Focillon 35; Hind 12; Wilton-Ely 37 and p. 69 as: “Platform on arches in the middle ground supporting an inscribed monument with instruments of torture to the right”
Associated People: Created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)
Accession Number: 1973.D1.38.12

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