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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Man on the Rack, Plate II from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)

c. 1761

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  • Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
  • Title The Man on the Rack, Plate II from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Date c. 1761
  • Medium Etching
  • Dimensions sheet | 32 x 22 1/4 in.
  • Part of Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Credit line University purchase, 1967
  • Object number WU 4342

Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/08/2017 - 01/08/2018

Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 12/17/2014 - 06/14/2015

Inscription Lower right, in plate:

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