Specifications
| Title | The Giant Wheel |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Etching |
| Object type |
Print
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 556 mm Width 408 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Graphic artist:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Publisher: Giovanni Bouchard |
| Accession number | L 1952/20 (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1952 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1952 |
| Creation date | in 1749-1750 |
| Signature | lower left: Piranesi f. |
| Watermark | fleur-del-lis in circle with letter F below (75 x 56 mm, upper center, to the left, P4 from above; vV, 16P, plano; similar to Robison 5) |
| Provenance | ; - ; art dealers Colnaghi, London; Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1952 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1953; Rotterdam 2006; Rotterdam 2019 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Piranesi . Canaletto . Tiepolo: prenten uit de collectie Bierens de Haan, een keuze van oud-directeur J.C. Ebbinge Wubben (2006) |
| External exhibitions |
Boijmans bij de Buren - De duizelingwekkende verbeelding van Piranesi (2019) |
| Research |
Show research Piranesi on Paper |
| Literature | Focillon 1918, no. 32; Hind 1922, no. 9; Rotterdam 1953, nos. 1-14, pl. 1; Robison 1986, no. 35; Wilton-Ely 1994, no. 34 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Etching
> Manual
> Intaglio printing techniques
> Printing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
| Place of manufacture | Rome > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
