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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Ponte Molle, from Vedute di Roma (H. 64)
etching, 1762, first state (of four), with Piranesi's address and price, a fine impression, from a contemporary Roman edition, watermark double-encircled Fleur-de-Lys (H. 3), with wide margins, the usual central vertical fold, a crease in the lower left margin, with pale discolouration at the extreme sheet edges, stitchmarks at the left sheet edge, otherwise generally in good condition, P. 445 x 680mm.; and The Tiber at the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima (formerly called the Bel Lido), with the Round Temple and S. Maria in Cosmedin in the Background (H. 125 i/iii), from a Roman edition (2)
The Ponte Molle, from Vedute di Roma (H. 64)
etching, 1762, first state (of four), with Piranesi's address and price, a fine impression, from a contemporary Roman edition, watermark double-encircled Fleur-de-Lys (H. 3), with wide margins, the usual central vertical fold, a crease in the lower left margin, with pale discolouration at the extreme sheet edges, stitchmarks at the left sheet edge, otherwise generally in good condition, P. 445 x 680mm.; and The Tiber at the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima (formerly called the Bel Lido), with the Round Temple and S. Maria in Cosmedin in the Background (H. 125 i/iii), from a Roman edition (2)