Pieter van der Aa
Fireworks Display in the Piazzetta San Marco
1721
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 387 x 435 mm. (15 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
Plate: 312 × 404 mm. (12 5/16 × 15 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore
Object Number
1980.130
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase; Osvaldo Bohm, Venice, Italy, 5/12/80 (Lira 200,000).
Elizabeth Rodini, BMA, "The City Real and Ideal," 11 October 2006 - 11 March 2007, cat. 50.
Inscribed: lower right center, in Latin and French in plate: "Volo Fuochi Artificialli, et altri Givochi nel Giovedi grasso"
