Underground Prisons, Known as "the Wells"

1797

Giovanni De Pian

Artist, Italian, 1764 - 1800

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 23.8 × 30.6 cm (9 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.2 × 35.3 cm (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.137.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(La Portantina di Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2019 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Inscriptions

in plate, below image, at left: F. Galimberti delineo sopra luogo; in plate, below image, at right: Gio. de Pian incise; in plate, below image, at center: Carceri sotterracquee della aristocrazia triumvirale, dette Pozzi, fatte demolire dalla Municipalità provisoria di Venezia li 25 maggio 1797 / No. 1 si vende dal Cit.o Gio. Valerio Pasquali Librajo rio-terrà S. Marcuola Scala di Piedi 3 Veneti; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 582; by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink: 1[in circle]; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: Pian (De) Gio; c34

Watermarks

crowned bird (phoenix?) with CFA(?)

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