The Smoking Fire, plate 6 from Imaginary Prisons

The Smoking Fire, plate 6 from Imaginary Prisons

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1761

Accession Number

7356

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.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections