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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Lion Bas-Reliefs, Plate V from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)

1761

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  • Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
  • Title The Lion Bas-Reliefs, Plate V from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Date 1761
  • Medium Etching
  • Dimensions sheet | 31 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.
  • Part of Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Credit line University purchase, 1967
  • Object number WU 4343

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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

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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/14/2012 - 01/07/2013

Inscription Lower right, in plate: Piranesi F.

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