Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Smoking Fire
1760
Physical Qualities
Etching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite with burnishing, Sheet: 625 x 474 mm. (24 5/8 x 18 11/16 in.)
Plate: 540 x 400 mm. (21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of General Lawrason Riggs
Object Number
1935.1.6
Arcaded vault from which is suspended to the left a pulley block supporting heavy cords
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
Inscribed: Etched below image at lower left: "Piranesi F." In upper right corner of image: "VI." In graphite at bottom left of sheet: "H. 6 ii"
Markings: WM: none
