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The Smoking Fire (Plate VI of the Second Edition, Second Issue, of the Carceri)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
1761
Medium/Technique
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
Dimensions
Sheet: 79.8 x 56.5 cm (31 7/16 x 22 1/4 in.)
Platemark: 54.5 x 40.2 cm (21 7/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Platemark: 54.5 x 40.2 cm (21 7/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Ellen T. Bullard
Accession Number21.11676
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 006, ii/iii; Focillon 29; Robison 32, vi/vii (Second Edition, Fourth Issue, through early printings of Fifth Edition, c. 1775-1835); Ficacci 115
State
ii
Marks
Verso, lower center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
Provenance1921, gift of Miss Ellen Twistleton Bullard (b. 1865 - d. 1959), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 1, 1921)