The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1748/50

Accession Number

43907

Medium

Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 54.5 × 40 cm (21 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.); Plate: 55.2 × 40.7 cm (21 3/4 × 16 1/16 in.); Sheet: 80.2 × 55.3 cm (31 5/8 × 21 13/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

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