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Art Institute of Chicago

The Sawhorse, plate 12 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: 40.8 × 55 cm (16 1/8 × 21 11/16 in.); Plate: 41.4 × 55.6 cm (16 5/16 × 21 15/16 in.); Sheet: 58.7 × 76.9 cm (23 1/8 × 30 5/16 in.)
Credit line
The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
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