The Arch with a Shell Ornament, plate 11 from the series Imaginary Prisons (Carceri d'Invenzione)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720 - 1778
about 1765-1775
Etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper
Second edition, third issue
Plate: 15 15/16 × 21 9/16 in. (40.5 × 54.8 cm)
Sheet: 17 1/2 × 23 3/16 in. (44.4 × 58.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
PR.995.8
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left margin: Piranesi F.; inscribed, in plate, in image, upper right: XI; inscribed, in pen and ink, on reverse, center left: a Paris Chez Naudet IIIe Estampes au Louvre / 1790; lower right: 1#/10
Course History
ARTH 17, Italian Renaissance Architecture: Issues and Approaches, Lauren Jacobi, Winter 2013
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
CLST 7, The Idea of Rome, Margaret Williamson, Spring 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
THEA 16, Theatre and Society II: Early Modern Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015
SART 65, 66, 68, Architecture I, II, III, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2015
SART 65, Architecture 1, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2020
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2021
ITAL 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Damiano Benvegnu, Fall 2021
ARTH 81.03, The Viral Image, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Winter 2022
SART 76, Senior Seminar, Enrico Riley, Winter 2022
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2022
SART 27/28/74, Printmaking I/II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2022
SART 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Fall 2022
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2023
Studio Art 27.01/28.01/74.01, Printmaking I/II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 54.
Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-June 26, 1995.
Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-September 9, 2001.
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.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, p. 2, ill. p. 2, fig. 2, listed p.7, no. 54..
T. Barton Thurber, "Survival and Revival of the Classical Tradition: Antiquity in Rome from the Baroque Era to the Age of Enlightenment." In T. Barton Thurber and Adrian W.B. Randolph, Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment: Selections from Dartmouth's Collections, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2001, pp. 59-63, ill. p. 62, listed p.74.
Provenance
Naudet, Paris, by 1790 (Lugt 1937); Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1995.
Catalogue Raisonne
Focillon 34; Hind 11; Robison 37
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