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The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons), 1748/50. Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper.
Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper · Image: 54.5 × 40 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- 1748/50
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1720–1778
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.