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95 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, *Remains of Ancient Buildings, Among Which Is the Burial Urn of Marcus Agrippa, Carved from a Single Piece of Porphyry, Which Today Serves as the Tomb of Clement XII*. 1747 [1st edition, 3rd issue]. Etching, engraving, and drypoint. 385x240 mm. Sheet: 500x350 mm. Focillon, 5. Robison, 16. Signed in the lower left margin and numbered “5” in the right-hand corner. From *Prima parte di architetture e prospettive inventate ed incise da Gio. Batta Piranesi architetto veneziano dedicate al sig. Nicola Giobbe*, a work consisting of a title page and 12 plates, first published in Rome by the Pagliarini brothers in 1743 and again in *Opere varie* by Bouchard in 1750 with two additional plates and a changed title. A beautiful copy in the first state of 2, prior to the numbering in the upper right corner, from the first edition, third issue (1747–ca. 1835), printed with full and brilliant inking on heavy laid paper apparently without a watermark. (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed. Trace of a horizontal fold in the center. A few imperceptible stains along the right margin.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, *Remains of Ancient Buildings, Among Which Is the Burial Urn of Marcus Agrippa, Carved from a Single Piece of Porphyry, Which Today Serves as the Tomb of Clement XII*. 1747 [1st edition, 3rd issue]. Etching, engraving, and drypoint. 385x240 mm. Sheet: 500x350 mm. Focillon, 5. Robison, 16. Signed in the lower left margin and numbered “5” in the right-hand corner. From *Prima parte di architetture e prospettive inventate ed incise da Gio. Batta Piranesi architetto veneziano dedicate al sig. Nicola Giobbe*, a work consisting of a title page and 12 plates, first published in Rome by the Pagliarini brothers in 1743 and again in *Opere varie* by Bouchard in 1750 with two additional plates and a changed title. A beautiful copy in the first state of 2, prior to the numbering in the upper right corner, from the first edition, third issue (1747–ca. 1835), printed with full and brilliant inking on heavy laid paper apparently without a watermark. (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed. Trace of a horizontal fold in the center. A few imperceptible stains along the right margin.
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