Pagina di titolo, title page from the series Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pagina di titolo, title page from the series Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), 1761, etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite on paper, Gift of an Anonymous Donor, public domain, 2005.36.1
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- Title
Pagina di titolo, title page from the series Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
- Related Titles
series (original language): Carceri d'invenzione
series (translated): Imaginary Prisons
- Artist
- Date
1761
- Medium
etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite on paper
- Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1, State iii/iv; Robison I, State viii/ix
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 21 5/8 in x 16 1/2 in; sheet: 28 1/4 in x 21 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription; numbered: Title Page, Prison Set H.I II / AR 683, graphite [in another hand], bottom left
inscription; title; signature: CARCERI // D' / INVENZIONE // DI / G. BATTISTA // PIRANESI // ARCHIT // VENE, printed, center in image Language: Italian
signature: Piranesi F., printed, lower left in plate
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
Italian
- Credit Line
Gift of an Anonymous Donor
- Accession Number
2005.36.1
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Exhibitions
2008 Celebrating Prints: Recent Acquisitions Portland Art Museum