Title: The Giant Wheel, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1749–50
Portfolio: Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Piranesi 
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching, engraving; second state of eight (Robison)
Dimensions: Sheet: 25 1/16 x 19 1/2 in. (63.6 x 49.5 cm)
Plate: 21 5/8 x 16 1/16 in. (55 x 40.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY