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This image depicts the interior of an architectural structure. it includes a large arched ceiling with a coffered pattern and a single barred window. Below the ceiling, there is a bridge-like walkway with figures gathered. Underneath the walkway, in the lower section, are clusters of figures in separate archways and staircases. The image shows textures and use of light to emphasize depth and the scale of the space.
National Gallery of Art · Print
A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome
Georges François Blondel
- Date
- c. 1765
- Medium
- mezzotint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 56.4 x 40.5 cm (22 3/16 x 15 15/16 in.) sheet: 59.4 x 44.6 cm (23 3/8 x 17 9/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2001.118.1
- Credit line
- Paul Mellon Fund
- Time span
- 1726 to 1750
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- French
- Italy
- architecture
- mezzotint
Provenance
Private Collection, England; Christopher Lennox-Boyd, inv. no. P3359; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.
Inscription
lower center in plate: A View of the Inside of the New Prison at Rome / To the Rt. Hnble. RICHARD Earl Temple this Plate is most Humbly Dedicated... lower left in plate: Plate 1; lower right in plate: G F Blondell Delint. & Sculp. / GF Blondel; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 25/2 179 / 13914/SPB; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 529 x 407I/ 565x407 PL / P3359 VVV CD 1 ii/ii
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