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117 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Ancient Structures Built by Tarquinius Superbus, Known as the Bel Lido... 1776 [I/3, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 450x673 mm. Sheet: 523x750 mm. Focillon, 841. Hind, 125. Signed in the lower right margin. From the Views of Rome, a series of 135 plates on which Piranesi began working in 1748 and which he 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 surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37–39). (1) Sheet with wide margins on three sides as originally printed; the top margin has been trimmed by a few millimeters. Slight trace of a vertical fold in the center. Minimal yellowing at the lateral edges.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, View of the Ancient Structures Built by Tarquinius Superbus, Known as the Bel Lido... 1776 [I/3, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 450x673 mm. Sheet: 523x750 mm. Focillon, 841. Hind, 125. Signed in the lower right margin. From the Views of Rome, a series of 135 plates on which Piranesi began working in 1748 and which he 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 surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 37–39). (1) Sheet with wide margins on three sides as originally printed; the top margin has been trimmed by a few millimeters. Slight trace of a vertical fold in the center. Minimal yellowing at the lateral edges.
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