Title: The Smoking Fire, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1749–50
Portfolio: Carceri d'invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Piranesi 
Artist bio: Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of seven (Robison)
Dimensions: Sheet: 25 x 19 1/2 in. (63.5 x 49.5 cm)
Sheet: 21 1/4 x 15 11/16 in. (54 x 39.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures, term: Buildings, term: Prisons