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109 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater, known as the Colosseum. 1766 [III/5, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 458x697 mm. Sheet: 525x747 mm. Focillon, 760. Hind, 78. 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 5, after the appearance of the crack in the lower left corner of the plate but before the 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 wide margins as originally on three sides; the top margin has been irregularly trimmed by a few millimeters. Vertical fold in the center, open for a short distance at the ends; the upper end has been repaired on the reverse with Filmoplast. Slight yellowing at the ends of the side margins.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Interior of the Flavian Amphitheater, known as the Colosseum. 1766 [III/5, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 458x697 mm. Sheet: 525x747 mm. Focillon, 760. Hind, 78. 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 5, after the appearance of the crack in the lower left corner of the plate but before the 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 wide margins as originally on three sides; the top margin has been irregularly trimmed by a few millimeters. Vertical fold in the center, open for a short distance at the ends; the upper end has been repaired on the reverse with Filmoplast. Slight yellowing at the ends of the side margins.
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