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Fantasy of an Antique Prison

Carl Schütz · 1770/1780

Carl Schütz: Austrian, 1745 - 1800

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Fantasy of an Antique Prison

1770/1780

etching on laid paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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etching on laid paper
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plate: 13.9 x 9.6 cm (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 14.6 x 10.2 cm (5 3/4 x 4 in.)
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2005.128.10
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Carl Schütz. Fantasy of an Antique Prison. Carl Schütz; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Sch%C3%BCtz,_Fantasy_of_an_Antique_Prison,_1770-1780,_NGA_134406.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Fantasy of an Antique Prison — Carl Schütz. 1770/1780.

Medium: etching on laid paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 13.9 x 9.6 cm (5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.) sheet: 14.6 x 10.2 cm (5 3/4 x 4 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2005.128.10. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Carl Schütz. Fantasy of an Antique Prison. Carl Schütz; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Sch%C3%BCtz,_Fantasy_of_an_Antique_Prison,_1770-1780,_NGA_134406.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.