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The Draw Bridge
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, plate 7
From Carceri d’Invenzione
The print
- Technique
- Facsimile giclée
- Sheet
- 20 × 25½ in, original size
- Paper
- White etching paper, 270 g/m²
- Ink
- Archival ink
- Edition
- Limited to 250 prints
$225
Limited edition of 250
€200 incl. VAT in the EU
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Reproduced from an original copy of Carceri d’Invenzione.
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- Unframed, rolled in a hard carton tube
- Returns within 14 days
A facsimile of the original sheet
- Photographed from an original copy of Carceri d’Invenzione.
- Proofed against that sheet under daylight, until the colours match.
- Printed at the full size of the sheet, with its margins and lettering, in an edition of 250.
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About this plate
The Draw Bridge is plate 7 of Carceri d’Invenzione by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1750–1761). This facsimile is made from the original and printed at the size of the original sheet, 20 × 25½ in (51 × 65 cm).
About the original
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), the Venetian architect and etcher who worked in Rome, first published his imaginary prisons anonymously in 1750. In 1761 he reissued them under his own name as Carceri d’invenzione: 16 etchings, reworked and bitten much more deeply for a darker effect.
The plates show vast underground vaults, endless stairs and great machines, with the figures reduced to tiny details; titles include The Man on the Rack and The Pier with Chains.
- Title
- Carceri d’Invenzione
- Published
- 1750-1761
- In our collection
- 16 prints
