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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Giant Wheel, Plate IX from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)

1758–60

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  • Artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
  • Title The Giant Wheel, Plate IX from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Date 1758–60
  • Medium Etching
  • Dimensions sheet | 27 5/8 x 20 1/2 in.
  • Part of Le Carceri (The Prisons)
  • Credit line Gift of Dr. Malvern B. Clopton, 1935
  • Object number WU 3666

Renaissance and Baroque Prints: Investigating the Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/08/2017 - 01/08/2018

Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 12/17/2014 - 06/14/2015

Opening Exhibition of Mark C. Steinberg Memorial Hall
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/29/1960

1935
Dr. Malvern B. Clopton

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