The Smoking Fire, plate VI from the series "Invenzioni Capric di Carceri All'Acqua Forte Datte in Luce da Giovani Buzard in Roma Mercante al Corso (Fanciful images of Prisons, etchings published by Giovanni Buzard in Rome, conducting business on the Corso)"

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The Smoking Fire, plate VI from the series "Invenzioni Capric di Carceri All'Acqua Forte Datte in Luce da Giovani Buzard in Roma Mercante al Corso (Fanciful images of Prisons, etchings published by Giovanni Buzard in Rome, conducting business on the Corso)"
The Smoking Fire, plate VI from the series "Invenzioni Capric di Carceri All'Acqua Forte Datte in Luce da Giovani Buzard in Roma Mercante al Corso (Fanciful images of Prisons, etchings published by Giovanni Buzard in Rome, conducting business on the Corso)"
Artist/Maker (Italian, 1720 - 1778)
Date1750
MediumEtching, engraving, and sulphur tint or open bite
DimensionsComposition: 21 in. × 15 1/2 in. (53.3 × 39.4 cm) Plate: 21 3/8 × 15 3/4 in. (54.3 × 40 cm) Sheet: 31 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (80 × 57.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds donated by William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object number1993.2
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 1993: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by purchase from Childs Gallery, Boston, MA.
Published References Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, FRIENDS OF ART NEWSLETTER, vol. 1, no. 6, April 1994, "1993 Acquisitions"
Signature Signed "Piranesi F." in plate at lower left.
Inscribed "VI" in plate at upper right; "83.45.8.34 $3000" at lower right in pencil.
Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo (View of the Falvian Amphitheater, called the Colossesum), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo (View of the Falvian Amphitheater, called the Colossesum), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: c. 1748-78
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.20
Photograph by John Bentham.
Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio detto Il Colosseo (View of Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1776
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1987.14
Image Not Available for Veduta del Campidoglio di fianco (View of the Campidoglio, seen from the side), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Veduta del Campidoglio di fianco (View of the Campidoglio, seen from the side), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1775
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1987.15
Veduta di un gran Masso, Avanzo del Sepolcro della Familia d' Metelli sulla Via Appia (View of a large structure, remains of the Tomb of the Metelli on the Appian Way)
Veduta di un gran Masso, Avanzo del Sepolcro della Familia d' Metelli sulla Via Appia (View of a large structure, remains of the Tomb of the Metelli on the Appian Way)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1752-56
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1986.5
Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza ma per ordine di N'ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi (Remains of the Aqueduct of Nero which were to be destroyed on account of their age but remained standing by order of Pope Clement XIV), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Avanzi degl' Aquedotti Neroniani che si volevano distruggere per la loro vecchiezza ma per ordine di N'ro. Sig.re Papa Clemento XIV sono restati in piedi (Remains of the Aqueduct of Nero which were to be destroyed on account of their age but remained standing by order of Pope Clement XIV), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1775
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.19
Image Not Available for Veduta interna del Panteon (Interior view of the Pantheon), from the series "Veduta di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Veduta interna del Panteon (Interior view of the Pantheon), from the series "Veduta di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: 1768
Medium: Etching
Object number: 2010.4.1
Image Not Available for Veduta del Tempio di Bacco, inoggi Chiea di S. Urbano, distante du miglia da Roma fuori della Porta di S. Sebastiano (View of the Temple of Bacchus, now the church of Saint Urbano, two miles distant from Rome, beyond the Porta Saint Sebastiano), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Veduta del Tempio di Bacco, inoggi Chiea di S. Urbano, distante du miglia da Roma fuori della Porta di S. Sebastiano (View of the Temple of Bacchus, now the church of Saint Urbano, two miles distant from Rome, beyond the Porta Saint Sebastiano), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: c. 1758
Medium: Etching
Object number: 2010.4.2
Image Not Available for Rovine del Sisto, o sia della gran sala delle Terme Antoniniane (Ruins of the Xystus, the central hall of the Antoinine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla]), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Rovine del Sisto, o sia della gran sala delle Terme Antoniniane (Ruins of the Xystus, the central hall of the Antoinine Baths [The Baths of Caracalla]), from the series "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)"
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Date: c. 1765
Medium: Etching
Object number: 2010.4.3
Ex Luce
Ex Luce
Piero Dorazio
Date: 1966
Medium: Color lithograph
Object number: 1984.102
La Rétameuse (The Tinker) from the series "Douze eaux-fortes d'après nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature)"
La Rétameuse (The Tinker) from the series "Douze eaux-fortes d'après nature (Twelve Etchings from Nature)"
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Date: published November 1858
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1928.25
Danny Kaye Conducting at Tanglewood
Danny Kaye Conducting at Tanglewood
Erika Stone
Date: date unknown, printed 1961
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.281
Circle Image
Circle Image
Louis Schanker
Date: 1951
Medium: Color woodcut
Object number: 1984.317