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116 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Remains of the Neronian Aqueducts, Which Were to Be Demolished Due to Their Age... 1775 [I/4]. Etching. 488x703 mm. Sheet: 532x774 mm. Focillon, 850. Hind, 118. 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 splendid proof from the Roman edition in the first state of 4 preceding any numbering, printed on heavy laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37–39). (1) Sheet intact with original margins. Trace of a vertical fold in the center. Minimal and sporadic foxing spots at the edges.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Remains of the Neronian Aqueducts, Which Were to Be Demolished Due to Their Age... 1775 [I/4]. Etching. 488x703 mm. Sheet: 532x774 mm. Focillon, 850. Hind, 118. 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 splendid proof from the Roman edition in the first state of 4 preceding any numbering, printed on heavy laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37–39). (1) Sheet intact with original margins. Trace of a vertical fold in the center. Minimal and sporadic foxing spots at the edges.
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