Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), ca. 1749–50, Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of four (Robison), Sheet: 19 1/2 x 25 3/16 in. (49.5 x 64 cm), Prints, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome), In the rough and bold etchings of the Carceri, Piranesi achieved the immediacy of a drawn sketch in print. The low viewpoint and the small size of the figures emphasize the immensity of these invented spaces, based on stage prisons rather than real ones
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Prisoners, Projecting Platform, Carceri d'invenzione, Imaginary Prisons, ca, 1749–50, Etching, engraving, sulphur tint, open bite, burnishing, first state, four, Robison, Sheet, 19 1/2 x 25 3/16, 49.5 64 cm, Prints, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, Mogliano Veneto, 1720–1778, Rome, rough, bold etchings, Carceri, Piranesi achieved, immediacy, drawn sketch, print, low viewpoint, small size, figures emphasize, immensity, invented spaces, based, stage prisons, real ones
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