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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Giant Wheel, Plate IX from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons), 1758–60.
The Giant Wheel, Plate IX from the series Le Carceri (The Prisons)
1758–60
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720–1778
Etching
27 5/8 x 20 1/2 "
Gift of Dr. Malvern B. Clopton, 1935
WU 3666
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