PIRANESI. Obelisco Egizio.
Etching, 535x400 mm. Wide margins. State II/V. Contem…

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PIRANESI. Obelisco Egizio. Etching, 535x400 mm. Wide margins. State II/V. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. Beautiful etching of the Egyptian obelisk placed in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in 1588 by the architect Domenico Fontana at the behest of Pope Sixtus V. At 32.18 m high, it is the tallest monolithic obelisk in the world.

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PIRANESI. Obelisco Egizio. Etching, 535x400 mm. Wide margins. State II/V. Contemporary Roman issue. Good condition. Beautiful etching of the Egyptian obelisk placed in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano in 1588 by the architect Domenico Fontana at the behest of Pope Sixtus V. At 32.18 m high, it is the tallest monolithic obelisk in the world.

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PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista. View of the Arch of Titus.Rome, Presso l'Autore, 1760 Etching and burin on vergellata strong paper. Engraved 410x620 mm. Wide margins. Inscriptions: lower center 'Title'; below, address and price "Autore, Strada Felice, A paoli due e mezzo"; to right and left of title long historical note "It was erected to this Imperadore after his death in memory of the destruction ... casa Augustana on the Palatino/ G. Strada che conduce a S. Bonaventura"; lower right, signature "Gio. Batta Piranesi Architetto diseg. e incise". Condition 1/5. Good conservation. Magnificent large view by Piranesi in the first state out of five. The print was included in the series 'Views of Rome,' a work consisting of 135 plates made individually by Piranesi over a period of 30 years, from 1745 until the year of his death. The first 34 plates were first published by Giovanni Bouchard in 1751, the remainder by Piranesi himself as publisher in 'Strada Felice' first and 'Palazzo Tomati' later. After the Author's death the plates were inherited by his son Francesco, who edited a publication first in Rome, the so-called 'posthumous Roman' editions, and later in Paris, where three editions appeared: the one called 'first of Paris,' an intermediate one, both on virgin paper, and finally the one edited by Firmin Didot, on paper without blanks and with the addition in the plates of an ordinal number. The plates were later acquired by the Chambers Chalcography, later the National Chalcography, now the Central Institute for Graphics, where they are preserved. Hind 55; Focillon 756; Wilton-Ely 185. Etching and burin on thick laid paper. 410x620 mm plate. Wide margins. Inscriptions: bottom center 'Title'; below, address and price "Autore, Strada Felice, A paoli due e mezzo"; "It was erected to this Imperadore after his death in memory of the destruction ... casa Augustana on the Palatino/ G. Strada che conduce a S. Bonaventura"; lower right, the signature "Gio. Batta Piranesi Architetto diseg. e incise". State 1/5. Good condition. Magnificent large view of Piranesi in the first state of five. The print was included in the series 'Vedute di Roma,' a work which consists of 135 plates created individually by Piranesi over a period of 30 years, from 1745 until the year of his death. The first 34 plates were published for the first time by Giovanni Bouchard in 1751, the remaining ones by the same Piranesi publisher at 'Strada Felice' first and then 'Palazzo Tomati'. After the Author's death, the matrices were inherited by his son Francesco, who edited a publication first in Rome, the so-called 'posthumous Roman' editions and subsequently in Paris, where three editions appeared: the one called 'before Paris', an intermediate one, both on laid paper, and finally the one by Firmin Didot, on not laid paper and with the addition of an ordinal number in the plates. The matrices were then acquired by the Italian Calcografia Camerale, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, where they are stored.

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