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The Giant Wheel

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Giant Wheel

1760

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Giant Wheel

1760

Physical Qualities Etching and engraving, Sheet: 635 x 468 mm. (25 x 18 7/16 in.) Plate: 551 x 406 mm. (21 11/16 x 16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number 1935.1.9
Monumental doorway formed of cyclopean blocks of stone below a circular opening
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: In lower left corner of image: "Piranesi f." In upper left corner of image: "IX" In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H.q ii"

Markings: WM: none

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1719–1777

Italian, 1720-1778
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