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101 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Remains of Maecenas’s Villa in Tivoli, built of travertine in the “opera incerta” style. 1763 [I/3]. Etching. 455 x 675 mm. Sheet: 557 x 795 mm. Focillon, 768. Hind, 65. Signed within the title cartouche in the lower left corner. 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 the first state, prior to the appearance of the numbering in the upper right corner, printed with a full line and brilliant inking on laid paper apparently without a watermark. (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed, slightly irregular edges, with traces of old dust and minimal yellowing. Trace of a vertical fold in the center.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Remains of Maecenas’s Villa in Tivoli, built of travertine in the “opera incerta” style. 1763 [I/3]. Etching. 455 x 675 mm. Sheet: 557 x 795 mm. Focillon, 768. Hind, 65. Signed within the title cartouche in the lower left corner. 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 the first state, prior to the appearance of the numbering in the upper right corner, printed with a full line and brilliant inking on laid paper apparently without a watermark. (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed, slightly irregular edges, with traces of old dust and minimal yellowing. Trace of a vertical fold in the center.
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