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The Giant Wheel (Plate IX of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 80 x 56.5 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 41.1 x 55.6 cm (16 3/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Platemark: 41.1 x 55.6 cm (16 3/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11680
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
It is difficult to tell from Andrew Robison's catalogue raisonné whether this is his sixth or seventh state. It is undoubtedly the seventh state, however, since it is part of a gift of plates of the Carceri, the others of which are from the Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of the Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835.
S. A. Bergquist Nov. 13, 2015
S. A. Bergquist Nov. 13, 2015
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 009, ii/iii; Focillon 32; Robison 35, vi/viii or vii/viii (Second Edition, Third Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1765-1835); Ficacci 118
State
ii
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1921, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1921)