The Prisons:  A Perspective of Arches with a Smoking Fire — Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Prisons: A Perspective of Arches with a Smoking Fire

1745–1750

Dating
Date range
Held at
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium
etching
Collection no.
1941.26.4
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. The Prisons: A Perspective of Arches with a Smoking Fire. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Dudley P. Allen Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Prisons: A Perspective of Arches with a Smoking Fire — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1745–1750.

Medium: etching. Dimensions: .

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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