The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1749–50

The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons), Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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Holder's headings: Prisons, Stairs
Wikidata depicts: human, arch, stairs, tower, prison, pulley, footbridge, chain, beam

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Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 337725 (read 2026-09-01)
Record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/337725

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Within fifty years of ca. 1749–50

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi made The Round Tower, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons), and made these too.

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