The Smoking Fire
Catalogue
- Year
- 1800
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
Artist
Painting
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric "prisons". He was the father of Francesco Piranesi, Laura Piranesi and Pietro Piranesi.
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More by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
1800 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
The Arch with a Shell Ornament
1800 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, drypoint
The Gothic Arch
1800 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing
The Sawhorse
1780 · etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, scratching [date should be read as "published 1780s"]
The Giant Wheel
1780 · etching, engraving [date should be read as "published 1780s"]
The Drawbridge
1780 · etching, engraving, scratching [date should be read as "published 1780s"]
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1800
- Watts ID
- WW-1800-241041
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified