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Carceri d’invenzione di G. Battista Piranesi Archit. Vene.
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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
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CA RBD Piranesi
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Fourth edition, first Paris edition
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1800-1809 (Creation)
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- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
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16 plates
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Gift of Ramsay Traquair (1874-1952), MacDonald Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture, McGill University (1914-1938).
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Etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi printed in Paris between 1800 and 1809. Sixteen plates numbered I-XVI, with the title plate first used in the second edition of 1761 and the two plates added to the second edition, Pl. II “The Man on a Rack,” and plate V, “The Lion-Bas Reliefs” as well as plate XVI, the reworked “Pier with Chains.” All plates with Roman numerals added in the second editions, numbered I-XVI, including the title plate.
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Sources:
- Focillon, Henri, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre, 1918, p. 12-14 (nos. 24-39).
- Hind, Arthur M., Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study, with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome, 1967, p. 24-29, (nos. 1-16); p. 81.
- Focillon, Henri, Peintures romanes des églises de France, 1967, p. 282-287.
- Robison, Andrew, Piranesi-early architectural fantasies : a catalogue raisonné of the etchings, 1986, p. 135-210 (nos. 29-44).
Publication and Exhibition of this work and archival sources in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division: Letter of B.T. Batsford, 94 High Holborn, London, to Ramsay Traquair, April 23, 1913; “Durer to Daumier,” 1913, pp. 44-48, no. 36 (Title Plate) and no. 38 (Smoking Fire, no. 36, ill. p. 45, and no. 38, ill. p. 47.