The Well, 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: 16 × 21 1/2 in. (40.7 × 54.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 5/8 × 28 1/8 in. (52.4 × 71.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.977.25.59
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Piranesi F; Watermark: [fleur-de-lis in circle, Hind 1]
Course History
THEA 16, Theatre and Society II: Early Modern Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015
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.
Rome in the 18th Century, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut, October 13-November 19, 1973.
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. 65, no. 88.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 36; Hind 13 i/iii; Robison 39
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