Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Giant Wheel
1749, printed 1830s
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 836 x 610 mm. (32 15/16 x 24 in.)
Plate: 560 x 411 mm. (22 1/16 x 16 3/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate IX from the series "Imaginary Prisons"
Credit Line
Gift of Nydia S. Finch, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
2010.53
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2010; Mrs. Nydia Finch, Baltimore, by purchase; Lucien Goldschmidt, NY
Inscribed: lower left in plate: "Piranesi f."; upper left in plate: "IX"; upper right in plate: "357"
