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ID: 700009354
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009354
Record Type: Conceptual
Images: 1 2
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform (etching (print); Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian printmaker, architect, 1...; 1749-1750)
Note: Plate 10 of 2nd ed 2nd issue and all subsequent issues.
Titles:
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)
Catalog Level: multiples
Work Types:
etching (print) [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)

Classifications:
prints (preferred)

Creation Date: 1749-1750

Creator Display:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian printmaker, architect, 1720-1778) [preferred]
printmaker Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (Italian printmaker, architect, 1720-1778) [500114965]
Locations:
Not Applicable:
Display Materials: etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; ink on paper
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)
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)
ink [300015012]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)
paper (fiber product) [300014109]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)
burnishing (polishing) [300053869]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <finishing and refinishing processes>, finishing (process), polishing)

Dimensions: plate: 417 x 553
General Subject:
architecture (preferred,description)

Specific Subjects:
platform (floor) [300132129]
.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <surface elements and surface element components>, surface elements (architectural), <floors and floor components>, floors (surface elements)) (AAT)
prisoners [300025933]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by state or condition>) (AAT)
prisons (buildings) [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)

Inscriptions: Signed in image, bottom left corner in state 2
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Conceptual Works
.......... Conceptual Works by class: for movable works
............... Carceri d'Invenzione
Sources and Contributors:
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform........ [VP]
........ Robison, Piranesi: the early architectural fantasies: a guide to the exhibition (1978)
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Robison, Piranesi: the early architectural fantasies: a guide to the exhibition (1978) 174 ff.
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