Art Institute of Chicago

The Staircase with Trophies, plate 8 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1761

Attribution

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778

Medium

Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper

Physical dimensions

Image: 54.3 × 39.4 cm (21 7/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Plate: 55 × 40.3 cm (21 11/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 78.9 × 58.4 cm (31 1/8 × 23 in.)

Credit line

The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections