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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Smoking Fire, published 1800/1809

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series Title

Carceri (Fourth Edition (First Paris Edition))

Medium

etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.6991

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Bibliography

1918: Focillon 29.

1922: Hind 6.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

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