ID: 700000610 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000610	Record Type: Movable Work
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Invenzioni capric di carceri all acqva forte (etchings (prints); Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (printmaker, 1720-1778); intende...; ca. 1749-1750; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 777403; accession number: 2007.PR.103**)

Note: Series comprising 14 Carceri plates that first appeared in 1749/1750, most likely intended for a bound voulme. However, Piranesi's publisher, Giovanni Bouchard, apparently released them, not as a discrete volume, but in "Opere varie di archittetura" of 1750. The Getty's set is remarkable in that they were never bound, but exist as large, loose sheets that were not trimmed. The earliest state of the imprint containing the Venetian spelling Buzard, subsequently changed to Bouchard. Contents: Title plate; Round tower; Grand piazza; Smoking fire; Drawbridge; Staircase with trophies; Giant wheel; Prisoners on a projecting platform; Arch with a shell ornament; Sawhorse; Well; Gothic arch; Pier with a lamp; Pier with chains.

Titles:

Invenzioni capric di carceri all acqva forte (preferred,C,U,RP,Italian-P,U,P)

Invenzioni capric di carceri all'acqua forte (C,U,Italian,U,U)

Etchings of imaginary prisons (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: series

Work Types:

etchings (prints) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1749-1750

Creator Display:

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (printmaker, 1720-1778); intended to be published by Giovanni Bouchard [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Italian printmaker, architect, 1720-1778) [500114965]

publisher Bouchard, Giovanni (Italian publisher, printer, ca. 1716-1795) [500353817]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 777403; accession number: 2007.PR.103**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 14 prints: etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing, scratching, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	burnishing (polishing) [300053869]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <finishing and refinishing processes>, finishing (process), polishing)

	open biting [300179734]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing techniques, printing surface preparation techniques, biting techniques)

Dimensions: plate marks 55.5 x 41.5 cm or smaller, on sheets 80 x 55 cm or smaller; 14 prints

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:

	capricci (visual works) [300015441]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	prison (building) [300006460]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, institutional buildings, correctional institutions (buildings)) (AAT)

	prisoner [300025933]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by state or condition>) (AAT)

	Italian (language) [300388474]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

Provenance: rumbl; Purchase.

Inscriptions: Invenzioni capric di carceri all acqva forte datte in lvce da Giovani Bvzard in Roma mercante al Corso.

Edition: First edition, First issue.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works

............... Carceri d'Invenzione

Sources and Contributors:
Invenzioni capric di carceri all acqva forte	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 777403
Invenzioni capric di carceri all'acqua forte	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Etchings of imaginary prisons	........ [VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) note

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) http://primo.getty.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=GRI&afterPDS=true&institution=GETTY&docId=GETTY_ALMA21139152170001551

....................... Wilton-Ely, J. Giovanni Battista Piranesi no. 26, 28, 29, 31-41

....................... Robison, Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, Catalogue Raisonné (1986) no. 29-42

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
	..... Marchesano, Invenzioni capric di carceri (2010)