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106 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Octagonal Temple of Minerva Medica. 1764 [II/4, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 467x704 mm. Sheet: 535x770 mm. Focillon, 778. Hind, 74. 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. A beautiful print in the second state of 4, following the addition of bold parallel lines to accentuate the shadow in the dome’s vault but preceding the appearance of the numbering in the upper right corner. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 39 bis). (1) Sheet intact with original margins. Trace of a vertical fold in the center and another slight transverse fold. Small crack in the engraving in the upper right repaired on the reverse with Filmoplast.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Octagonal Temple of Minerva Medica. 1764 [II/4, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 467x704 mm. Sheet: 535x770 mm. Focillon, 778. Hind, 74. 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. A beautiful print in the second state of 4, following the addition of bold parallel lines to accentuate the shadow in the dome’s vault but preceding the appearance of the numbering in the upper right corner. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 39 bis). (1) Sheet intact with original margins. Trace of a vertical fold in the center and another slight transverse fold. Small crack in the engraving in the upper right repaired on the reverse with Filmoplast.
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