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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Giant Wheel, 1780s

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series Title

Carceri (Third Edition ?)

Medium

etching, engraving [date should be read as "published 1780s"]

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 35, State vii/viii

Accession Number

1943.3.6993

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Exhibition History

1934: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1934.

1945: Architectural Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945, no cat.

1956: Renaissance to Roccoco: A Loan Exhibition of Italian Engravings and Woodcuts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1956, no cat.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 32.

1922: Hind 9.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

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