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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Prisoners on a Projecting Platform, Plate 10

1749–50
etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing

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Author Thomas De Quincy compared the disorienting and disturbing imagery of this series to his experience with opium addiction in his 1821 book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater .

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