Fireworks display, called the 'Girandola,' at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Fireworks display, called the 'Girandola,' at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

Fireworks display, called the 'Girandola,' at Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

Fuoco artificiale detto la Girandola, che s'incendia sul Castel S. Angelo già mausoleo d'E´lio Adriano

After: Louis-Jean Desprez (French, 1743–1804)
Etched by: Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1758–1810)

Italian

about 1783

Medium/Technique Etching with hand coloring

Dimensions Platemark: 76.5 x 51 cm (30 1/8 x 20 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 89.4 x 63.5 cm (35 3/16 x 25 in.)

Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard

Accession Number2016.244

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Wollin 3, ii (of iii)

InscriptionsRecto in l.r. in graphite: "no 5"

ProvenanceBy about 2015, sold from a private collection, the Netherlands, to Nicolaas Teeuwisse (dealer), Berlin; 2016, sold by Teeuwisse to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2016)