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AN OUTSTANDING PROOF OF ONE OF PIRANESI’S MOST IMPORTANT ETCHINGS, IN PERFECT CONDITION.
c. 1774.
Printed on extremely fine, thick laid paper, with excellent margins.
1774
Edition Size: unknown, but outstanding proofs like this one are very rare.
Image Size: 49.3 x 70.5 cm
Sheet Size: 53 x 77.8 cm
Reference: Focillon 579; Wilton-Ely 713
Unsigned
Condition: Pristine
AN OUTSTANDING PROOF OF ONE OF PIRANESI’S MOST IMPORTANT ETCHINGS, IN PERFECT CONDITION.
c. 1774.
Printed on extremely fine, thick laid paper, with excellent margins.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric “prisons”.