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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Staircase with Trophies, Plate VIII from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)

1760–69

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  • Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
  • Title The Staircase with Trophies, Plate VIII from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Date 1760–69
  • Medium Etching
  • Dimensions sheet | 28 x 21 1/2 in.
  • Part of Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Credit line Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, 1966
  • Object number WU 4306

Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/08/2017 - 01/08/2018

Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 12/17/2014 - 06/14/2015

1966
J. Lionberger Davis

Inscription Recto, lower left, in plate: Piranesi F.

Upper right, in plate:
VIII

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