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Title Page from Imaginary Prisons, 1749–50. Etching with engraving and sulphur tint or open bite on ivory laid paper.
Etching with engraving and sulphur tint or open bite on ivory laid paper · Image/plate: 54.4 × 41.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Title Page from Imaginary Prisons
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- 1749–50
- Medium
- Etching with engraving and sulphur tint or open bite on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 54.4 × 41.4 cm (21 7/16 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 57.8 × 44.3 cm (22 13/16 × 17 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Ursula and R. Stanley Johnson
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1720–1778
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.