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108 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ruins of the Antonine Baths. 1765 [I/3, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 443x696 mm. Sheet: 518x750 mm. Focillon, 852. Hind, 76. 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 first state of 3, prior to the appearance of the numbering in the upper right corner. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle over the letters CB” (Robison, 37–38). (1) Sheet intact with original margins. Very slight trace of a vertical fold in the center. Binding holes at the left edge. A short tear at the lower margin.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Ruins of the Antonine Baths. 1765 [I/3, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 443x696 mm. Sheet: 518x750 mm. Focillon, 852. Hind, 76. 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 first state of 3, prior to the appearance of the numbering in the upper right corner. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle over the letters CB” (Robison, 37–38). (1) Sheet intact with original margins. Very slight trace of a vertical fold in the center. Binding holes at the left edge. A short tear at the lower margin.
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