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The Giant Wheel (Plate IX of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)

The Giant Wheel (Plate IX of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)

(Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/TechniqueEtching and engraving
DimensionsSheet: 80 x 56.5 cm (31 1/2 x 22 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 41.1 x 55.6 cm (16 3/16 x 21 7/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession number21.11680
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ClassificationsPrints
Description

It is difficult to tell from Andrew Robison's catalogue raisonné whether this is his sixth or seventh state. It is undoubtedly the seventh state, however, since it is part of a gift of plates of the Carceri, the others of which are from the Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of the Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835.

S. A. Bergquist Nov. 13, 2015

Provenance1921, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1921)
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