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The Giant Wheel (Plate IX of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1749–50
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 71.8 x 52.5 cm (28 1/4 x 20 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 55.1 x 40.5 cm (21 11/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Platemark: 55.1 x 40.5 cm (21 11/16 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund
Accession NumberM25425
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 009, i/iii; Focillon 32; Robison 35, ii/viii (First Edition, First and Second Issues, 1749-c. 1758); Ficacci 118
State
ii
Marks
Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1914, sold by Mrs. A. M. B. Smith, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1914)