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The Pier with Chains, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)click to zoom
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The Pier with Chains, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Medium
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of six (Robison)
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 1/2 x 25 3/16 in. (49.5 x 64 cm) Plate: 16 1/16 x 21 9/16 in. (40.8 x 54.8 cm)
Department
Drawings and Prints
Classification
Prints
Dated
ca. 1749–50
Pixels
3779 × 2799
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Pier with Chains, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons), ca. 1749–50. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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