The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778

Created 1761

Curatorial Overview

“The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Imaginary Prisons is an internationally celebrated Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper created by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1761). From the collection of The Art Institute of Chicago.”

Object Details

MediumEtching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper

DimensionsImage: 54.5 × 40 cm (21 1/2 × 15 3/4 in.)

Archive / MuseumThe Art Institute of Chicago

Credit LineThe Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections

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Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian, 1720-1778

Romanticism & Neoclassicism • Italy • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries

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