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This work, one of a series, is not only the first large folio example of this Italian Baroque artist, but the first of his fantastic subjects in the collection. It thus fills an important space in portraying the Baroque era, as well as demonstrating a source of the later Romantic imagination.

Source:DMAC Bulletin, October 1967


Exhibition History"Masterworks on Paper: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999

"Italian Etchings of the 17th and 18th Centuries," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Published ReferencesHIND 3 II

Kennedy Galleries' catalog, cat. no. 125, repro p. 17
DimensionsSheet: 30 1/16 × 21 3/8 in. (76.4 × 54.3 cm)
Plate: 21 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (54.6 × 41.3 cm)
Accession Number 1967.15
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedPiranesi F. (l,l plate)
InscriptionsIII (u,l plate) 35 (l,l graphite) 3 H3II Pl. AR#563 (l,l graphite)
Catalogue raisonnéHind 3 II
Editionplate III, second edition
Collections
WorksonPaperHighlights
Imaginary Prison No. 3
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines