Pieter van der Aa
Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco
1721
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 387 x 435 mm. (15 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
Plate: 312 × 404 mm. (12 5/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Plate from "Thesaurus of the Antiquity and History of Italy"
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore
Object Number
1980.130
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase; Osvaldo Bohm, Venice, Italy, 5/12/80 (Lira 200,000).
Elizabeth Rodini, BMA, "The City Real and Ideal," 11 October 2006 - 11 March 2007, cat. 50.
Inscribed: lower right center, in Latin and French in plate: "Volo Fuochi Artificialli, et altri Givochi nel Giovedi grasso"
