Title: The Gothic Arch, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1749–50
Portfolio: Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Piranesi 
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of six Robison)
Dimensions: plate: 16 1/4 x 21 7/16 in. (41.2 x 54.4 cm)
sheet: 19 7/16 x 25 1/8 in. (49.4 x 63.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Architecture, term: Prisons, term: Stairs