Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778
Title
  • The Drawbridge
  • Prisons (series title)
Date 1761
Medium etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 21 5/8 × 16 1/8 inches (54.9 × 41 cm)
Sheet: 31 1/4 × 22 1/8 inches (79.4 × 56.2 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
Accession Number 42.67
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed in plate, lower left: Piranesi f.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil, lower right margin: H 7 | Before No.
Thomas Weld (Lulworth, England);
Alden Galleries;
1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Sojka, Nancy. "What is the Graphic Arts Collection at the DIA?" Bulletin of the DIA 80, no. 1/2 (2006): fig. 13, p. 12 (ill.).