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96 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Views of Rome drawn and engraved by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian architect. 1748 [III/5]. Etching. 405x548 mm. Sheet: 540x767 mm. Focillon, 719. Hind, 1. Signed in the lower right margin. Title page for the Views of Rome, a series of 135 plates that Piranesi began working on in 1748 and continued to expand with new plates throughout his life. A beautiful impression in the third state of five, following the addition of the address and price, on heavy laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37). (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed. A trace of a vertical fold in the center and other very slight folds in the upper right corner. Minimal signs of foxing at the edges of the upper and lower margins.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Views of Rome drawn and engraved by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian architect. 1748 [III/5]. Etching. 405x548 mm. Sheet: 540x767 mm. Focillon, 719. Hind, 1. Signed in the lower right margin. Title page for the Views of Rome, a series of 135 plates that Piranesi began working on in 1748 and continued to expand with new plates throughout his life. A beautiful impression in the third state of five, following the addition of the address and price, on heavy laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37). (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed. A trace of a vertical fold in the center and other very slight folds in the upper right corner. Minimal signs of foxing at the edges of the upper and lower margins.
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