European and North American :: Prints

PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista
Italy, 1720 - 1778

The lion bas-reliefs

plate 5 from the series 'Carceri d'invenzioni' (Imaginary prisons)

c. 1749-50 & 1761, Rome

etching, engraving on paper

56.2 x 41.2 cm (plate)

Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1961

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

612G5