Underground Prisons, Known as "the Wells", 1797

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series Title

I Pozzi e i Piombi di Venezia (The Wells and Leads of Venice) [plate 1]

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2019.137.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni De Pian (artist) Italian, 1764 - 1800

Francesco Galimberti (artist after) Italian, 1755 - 1803

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

La Portantina di Mattia Jona

Exhibition History

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