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100 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Interior View of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia. 1760 [III/6]. Etching. 412 x 550 mm. Sheet: 530 x 727 mm. Focillon, 7816. Hind, 59. Signed in the lower right margin. From 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. Excellent proof in State III of 6, with the address and price. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 35). (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed; one horizontal tear from right to left at the lower margin, repaired on the reverse with a paper strip. Trace of a vertical fold in the center. Very slight signs of yellowing at the edges.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Interior View of the Atrium of the Portico of Octavia. 1760 [III/6]. Etching. 412 x 550 mm. Sheet: 530 x 727 mm. Focillon, 7816. Hind, 59. Signed in the lower right margin. From 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. Excellent proof in State III of 6, with the address and price. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 35). (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed; one horizontal tear from right to left at the lower margin, repaired on the reverse with a paper strip. Trace of a vertical fold in the center. Very slight signs of yellowing at the edges.
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