The Well, c. 1761
Giovanni Battista Piranesiexpand_more
Etchingexpand_more
The Martha T. Wallace Memorial Fund, 1930expand_more P.11,337
Not on Viewexpand_more
The 1700s are known as the Age of Enlightenment, but a strong undercurrent of irrationality persisted. These conflicting impulses caused a collision between the international humanitarian call for prison reform and those architects who drew from Piranesi their inspiration for ever more intimidating institutional buildings.
Details
- Title
- The Well
- Artist Life
- Italian, 1720–1778
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.11,337
- Provenance
- Erbach-Erbach family, Schloss Erbach Hofbibliothek, Erbach (Odenwald), Germany. F. H. Bresler Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisc.
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Hind prisons 13 ii/iii, F.36, Robison 39 v/vi
- Curator Approved
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