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The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)
Publisher Giovanni Bouchard
ca. 1749–50
- Medium
- Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of four (Robison)
- Classification
- Prints
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24 13/16 x 19 1/2 in. (63 x 49.5 cm) Plate: 21 7/16 x 16 5/16 in. (54.5 x 41.5 cm)
- Culture
- Italian
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
