Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Giant Wheel
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 635 x 468 mm. (25 x 18 7/16 in.)
Plate: 551 x 406 mm. (21 11/16 x 16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.9
Monumental doorway formed of cyclopean blocks of stone below a circular opening
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: In lower left corner of image: "Piranesi f." In upper left corner of image: "IX" In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H.q ii"
Markings: WM: none
