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104 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Interior View of Maecenas’ Villa. 1764 [II/4, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 474x623 mm. Sheet: 535x775 mm. Focillon, 769. Hind, 73. Signed in the lower left 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 II of 4, following the addition of vertical hatching to the left side of the upper ring of the large arch and new etching points, but prior to numbering. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37). (1) Sheet intact with original margins; slight traces of yellowing spots on the right. Trace of a vertical fold in the center.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Interior View of Maecenas’ Villa. 1764 [II/4, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 474x623 mm. Sheet: 535x775 mm. Focillon, 769. Hind, 73. Signed in the lower left 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 II of 4, following the addition of vertical hatching to the left side of the upper ring of the large arch and new etching points, but prior to numbering. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37). (1) Sheet intact with original margins; slight traces of yellowing spots on the right. Trace of a vertical fold in the center.
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