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Prisoners on a Projecting Platform

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, plate 10

From Carceri d’Invenzione

The print

Technique
Facsimile giclée
Sheet
25½ × 20 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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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

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform is plate 10 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, 25½ × 20 in (65 × 51 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
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Founder Gies Pluim in the library of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.

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