Lot Essay
Including: The So-Called Temple of Bacchus; The Arch of Septimus Severus; Temple of the Camenae; and The Aqueduct of Nero Leading to the Palatine.
Vedute di Roma: Four Plates (H. 48; 99; 106; and 118)
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
Piranesi
Vedute di Roma: Four Plates (H. 48; 99; 106; and 118)
four etchings, 1758-75, on laid papers, watermark Encircled Fleur-de-Lys or none, very good to fine impressions of the first states, from contemporary Roman editions, with margins, all with central vertical folds with attendant remains of old supports, minor defects in the margins, otherwise generally in good condition (4)
Piranesi
Vedute di Roma: Four Plates (H. 48; 99; 106; and 118)
four etchings, 1758-75, on laid papers, watermark Encircled Fleur-de-Lys or none, very good to fine impressions of the first states, from contemporary Roman editions, with margins, all with central vertical folds with attendant remains of old supports, minor defects in the margins, otherwise generally in good condition (4)