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The interior of a prison: Design for the stage
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Circle of Giovanni Maria Quaglio (1772-1813)
The interior of a prison: Design for the stage
with inscription 'GBERKHEÜDEN.1687' and numbered 'Y1752'
black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolour heightened with white
425 x 298 mm.
The interior of a prison: Design for the stage
with inscription 'GBERKHEÜDEN.1687' and numbered 'Y1752'
black chalk, pen and black ink, watercolour heightened with white
425 x 298 mm.
Sale room notice
The composition of this sheet is taken from Carcere Oscura.., the third plate from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etching series Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive dated 1743, A. Robison, Piranesi, Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Chicago, 1986, p. 71.