Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, Plate 10
1749–50
- Medium
- etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
- Dimensions
- 49.5 × 63.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-210240
In his series of imaginary prisons, Giovanni Battista Piranesi experimented with scale, perspective, and etching to create disorienting and disturbing images of incarceration. Based on his training as a stage designer rather than on observations of real prisons, Piranesi used a low vantage point and distant staircases to disrupt traditional perspective and to emphasize both the monumentality of the space and the futility of trying to escape. Set against a strange cloud of white smoke, the densely drawn and deeply etched lines of the prisoners at left produce a confusing jumble of bodies that,…
Provenance
Allen Fund, 1941.26.8
Registry history
- 1749–50 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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