Lot Essay
This very rare map seems to have been printed in small numbers. The third or bottom text plate is not recorded by Wilton-Ely.
THE PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI
Plan of Rome and the Campus Martius (Wilton-Ely 1008)
etching and engraving from three plates, circa 1774, on three sheets of joined laid paper, without watermark, a very fine, early impression, with margins, two horizontal folds with related pale staining, a soft diagonal fold at the top left corner, an old paper guard sheet at the left margin edge, surface soiling on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition
overall S. 52 x 29 1/4in. (1320 x 743mm.)
Plan of Rome and the Campus Martius (Wilton-Ely 1008)
etching and engraving from three plates, circa 1774, on three sheets of joined laid paper, without watermark, a very fine, early impression, with margins, two horizontal folds with related pale staining, a soft diagonal fold at the top left corner, an old paper guard sheet at the left margin edge, surface soiling on the reverse, otherwise generally in good condition
overall S. 52 x 29 1/4in. (1320 x 743mm.)