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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
S. Maria Maggiore with the Column from the Basilica of Constantine in the Foreground, from Vedute di Roma (H. 10)
etching, 1749 (?), second state (of five), with Piranesi's address and price, a very good impression from a contemporary Roman Edition, watermark double-encircled Fleur-de-Lys (H.3), with margins, the usual central vertical fold, an inscription in pen and brown ink in the lower margin, paper adhesions in the left margin, otherwise generally in good condition
P. 402 x 612mm.
S. Maria Maggiore with the Column from the Basilica of Constantine in the Foreground, from Vedute di Roma (H. 10)
etching, 1749 (?), second state (of five), with Piranesi's address and price, a very good impression from a contemporary Roman Edition, watermark double-encircled Fleur-de-Lys (H.3), with margins, the usual central vertical fold, an inscription in pen and brown ink in the lower margin, paper adhesions in the left margin, otherwise generally in good condition
P. 402 x 612mm.