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Title Plate
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite · 1750
National Gallery of Art

The Grand Piazza
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing · 1750
National Gallery of Art

The Smoking Fire
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing · 1750
National Gallery of Art

The Monumental Tablet
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

Opere Varie di Architetura; Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Book of 122 etchings on paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

Egyptian Obelisk. This was erected by Pope Sixtus V in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Gothic Arch, plate 14 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

View of the exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Well, plate 13 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Sawhorse, plate 12 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Pier with Chains, plate 16 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Round Tower, plate 3 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Staircase with Trophies, plate 8 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Grand Piazza, plate 4 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Smoking Fire, plate 6 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Pier with a Lamp, plate 15 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

Title Page from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Drawbridge, plate 7 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, plate 10 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Arch with a Shell Ornament, plate 11 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago
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View of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans [Jupiter the Thunderer], from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

The Theater of Marcellus, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Felice, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago

View of the upper storey of the Cages for Wild Animals built by the Emperor Domitian, associated with the Flavian Amphitheater and commonly called the Curia Hostilia, from Views of Rome
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper · 1750
Art Institute of Chicago