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Title-page

Maker

(artist)
1720-1778

(etcher)
1720-1778

(publisher)
18th century (Life dates)

Title

Title-page

Date of Production

1749 = 1760

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 54.3 cm
Width: 41.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1978.PG.44.1

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

The title of this series translates as 'Fanciful inventions of prisons, etchings published by Giovanni Bouchard, dealer in the Corso, Rome'. Piranesi's name did not appear on the title page and was only added to a few of the plates int he first edition, which ocntained fourteen prints. The individual titles used today are modern descriptions which help identify the images; Piranesi himself did not give the prints titles.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Piranesi, Tiepolo, Canaletto - Etchings from the Courtauld
Collection
, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999

Hogarth and Piranesi: Engravings and etchings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 09/03/1992-07/06/1992

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : inscribed : printed : centre & recto : : INVENZIONI / CAPRIC DI CARCERI / ALL ACQVA FORTE / DATTE IN LVCE / DA GIOVANI / BOUCHARD IN / ROMA MERCANTE / AL CORSO

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