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File:Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Le Carceri d'Invenzione - First Edition - 1750 - 01 - Title Plate.jpg

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Le Carceri d'Invenzione, plate I: Title Plate  wikidata:Q20991337 reasonator:Q20991337
Artist
Giovanni Battista Piranesi  (1720–1778)  wikidata:Q316307 s:it:Autore:Giovanni Battista Piranesi q:it:Giovanni Battista Piranesi
 
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Description Italian printmaker, architect and engraver
Date of birth/death 4 October 1720 Edit this at Wikidata 9 November 1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mogliano Veneto, Republic of Venice Rome, Papal States
Work period 1740 Edit this at Wikidata–1778 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q316307
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Le Carceri d'Invenzione, plate I: Title Plate
label QS:Len,"Le Carceri d'Invenzione, plate I: Title Plate"
label QS:Lde,"Le Carceri d'Invenzione,Platte I: Titelseite"
label QS:Lfr,"Le Carceri d'Invenzione, planche I : Frontispice"
Series title Le Carceri d'Invenzione (I) Edit this at Wikidata
Object type etching print Edit this at Wikidata
Genre capriccio Edit this at Wikidata
Description
First plate in the first edition of Le Carceri d'Invenzione
Date between circa 1745 and circa 1750
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1745-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium etching print
Dimensions height: 54.6 cm (21.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 41.4 cm (16.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+54.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+41.4U174728
Leiden University
Accession number
37.45.3(21) (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Italy
Inscriptions
  • Invenzioni capric di carceri all acqua forte datte in luce da Giovani Bouchard in Roma mercante al corso Edit this at Wikidata
Notes Facsimile
References
Source/Photographer Leiden University
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  • Second edition
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First plate in the first edition of Le Carceri d'Invenzione

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