Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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

ca. 1749–50

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of four (Robison)

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)

Collection no.

37.45.3(27)

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression to at most 100,000 bytes; no crop or generated content.

Location checked Sep 8, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.