The Man on the Rack, 1761

  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778
  • Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720-1778

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 22 1/4 × 16 3/8 inches (56.5 × 41.6 cm) Sheet: 31 1/2 × 22 inches (80 × 55.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

42.62

Signed, lower right: Piranesi F.

Inscribed in plate, lower center: Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinita de' Monti, Fogli Sedici, al prezzo di paoli venti. In pencil, lower right margin: H. 2 | Before II above

Thomas Weld (Lulworth, England)

Alden Galleries

1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Man on the Rack, 1761, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hal H. Smith Fund and Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 42.62.