The Round Tower, from the series Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'Invenzione)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
about 1745-1750; published 1753
Etching on heavy laid paper
First edition, second issue
Plate: 21 3/8 × 20 9/16 in. (54.3 × 52.3 cm)
Sheet: 27 5/8 × 20 5/8 in. (70.2 × 52.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.25.49
Publisher
Giovanni Bouchard, Rome, Italy
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Watermark identifiable: fleur-de-lis in circle
Course History
THEA 16, Theatre and Society II: Early Modern Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015
ARTH 27.03, Building Boom: Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Italy, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2021
Exhibition History
Etchings by Piranesi, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 15-November 11, 1978.
Prisons/ Impressions: Piranesi's Carceri, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 27 and 28, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 16-April 28, 1996.
St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, November 15-December 15, 1978.
The Image Impressed, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-July 31, 1985.
Publication History
Andrew Robison, Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 139, 212, 240-241.
Lawrence W. Nichols, Piranesi at Dartmouth, Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1976, p. 63, no. 78.
Provenance
Purchased by Sir Robert Throckmorton (1702-1791), fourth baronet of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, in 1754.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 26; Hind 3 I/III; Robison 30
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