The Pier with a Lamp, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Giovanni Bouchard
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome|French, ca. 1716–1795
Artist role: Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: ca. 1749–50
Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of seven (Robison)
Dimensions: Sheet: 19 7/16 x 25 in. (49.4 x 63.5 cm)
Plate: 16 1/8 x 21 7/16 in. (41 x 54.4 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession year: 1937
Tags: Arches