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118 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Dieta, or the Place Leading to Various Grand Chambers and Other Magnificent Rooms, Located in Villa Adriana... 1777 [I/3, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 440x577 mm. Sheet: 536x765 mm. Focillon, 848. Hind, 134. Signed at the end of the inscriptions in the cartouche at the bottom center. 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 impression in the first state of 3, prior to numbering. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 36/36bis). (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed. Slight trace of a vertical fold in the center. Excellent condition.
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Dieta, or the Place Leading to Various Grand Chambers and Other Magnificent Rooms, Located in Villa Adriana... 1777 [I/3, 1st edition, Paris]. Etching. 440x577 mm. Sheet: 536x765 mm. Focillon, 848. Hind, 134. Signed at the end of the inscriptions in the cartouche at the bottom center. 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 impression in the first state of 3, prior to numbering. Thick laid paper with a watermark of “a lily flower within a double circle surmounted by the letters CB” (Robison, 36/36bis). (1) Sheet intact with wide margins as originally printed. Slight trace of a vertical fold in the center. Excellent condition.
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