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Prison by Giovanni Battista Piranesi — VisualArtsDB

Prison

Prison

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Medium: Etching
Dimensions: image: 35.4 × 23.1 cm (13 15/16 × 9 1/8 in.) plate: 36 × 23.6 cm (14 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.) sheet: 38.6 × 23.7 cm (15 3/16 × 9 5/16 in.)
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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The Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli, with another Temple R., once used as the Church of S. Giorgio

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