The Gothic Arch, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Artwork Details
- Title: The Gothic Arch, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
- Series/Portfolio: Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
- Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)
- Publisher: Giovanni Bouchard (French, ca. 1716–1795)
- Date: ca. 1749–50
- Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of six Robison)
- Dimensions: plate: 16 1/4 x 21 7/16 in. (41.2 x 54.4 cm)
sheet: 19 7/16 x 25 1/8 in. (49.4 x 63.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
- Object Number: 37.45.3(30)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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