# The Prisons: A Perspective of Arches with a Smoking Fire

By [Giovanni Battista Piranesi](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/giovanni-battista-piranesi.md>), 1745–1750.

## Details

- Medium: etching
- Collection: [Cleveland Museum of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-36a1fc18d246201d.md>)

[View collection record](<https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.26.4>)

- Categories: Print, Works on Paper
- Styles: [Baroque](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/baroque.md>)

## Image

![Layered arches, stairways, and a plume of smoke fill an immense imagined stone interior.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-36a1fc18d246201d-00452f61931ac4f5/full.jpg?v=36f47217586d5374df7e544def523d92f90cff37b4e5c86fd8b22878b8ac9e38>)

## Sources & credits

- The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1941.26.4. Dudley P. Allen Fund. CC0 Open Access.
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Cleveland Museum of Art

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