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The Smoking Fire, plate 6 from Imaginary Prisons

A work made of etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper.

Date:

1761

Artist:

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italian, 1720-1778

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title

The Smoking Fire, plate 6 from Imaginary Prisons

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1761

Medium

Etching and engraving on heavy ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 53.7 × 39.4 cm (21 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.); Plate: 54.4 × 40.1 cm (21 7/16 × 15 13/16 in.); Sheet: 78.7 × 57.7 cm (31 × 22 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections

Reference Number

1922.5596

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