Specifications
| Title | The Smoking Fire |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Etching |
| Object type |
Print
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
|
| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Height 536 mm Width 398 mm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Graphic artist:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Publisher: Giovanni Bouchard |
| Accession number | L 1952/17 (PK) |
| Credits | Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1952 |
| Department | Drawings & Prints |
| Acquisition date | 1952 |
| Creation date | in 1749-1750 |
| Signature | no signature |
| Watermark | fleur-del-lis in circle with letter F below? (60 x 56 mm, lower center, to the left, P3 from below, insufficiently legible; vV, 16P, plano) |
| Provenance | ; - ; art dealers Colnaghi, London; Purchased with the support of Lucas van Leyden Foundation, 1952 |
| Exhibitions | Rotterdam 1953; Maastricht 1998; Rotterdam 1998; Rotterdam 2006; Rotterdam 2019; Rotterdam 2022 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Piranesi . Canaletto . Tiepolo: prenten uit de collectie Bierens de Haan, een keuze van oud-directeur J.C. Ebbinge Wubben (2006) Piranesi (2022) |
| External exhibitions |
Boijmans bij de Buren - De duizelingwekkende verbeelding van Piranesi (2019) |
| Research |
Show research Piranesi on Paper |
| Literature | Focillon 1918, no. 29; Hind 1922, no. 6; Rotterdam 1953, nos. 1-14; Robison 1986, no. 32; Wilton-Ely 1994, no. 31 |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Technique |
Etching
> Manual
> Intaglio printing techniques
> Printing technique
> Technique
> Material and technique
|
| Geographical origin | Italy > Southern Europe > Europe |
