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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Basi di Colonne e Capitelli; and Capetelli, plates X and XII from 'Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de Romani' (Focilllon 942 and 944)
etchings, 2 from the series of 38 first published in 1761, possibly slightly later impressions, with wide margins, some water (?) staining, otherwise apparently in good condition, unexamined out of the frames
overall Sight 55.5 x 36 cm;
and Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece, another, smaller etching by the same hand, also framed (3)
Basi di Colonne e Capitelli; and Capetelli, plates X and XII from 'Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de Romani' (Focilllon 942 and 944)
etchings, 2 from the series of 38 first published in 1761, possibly slightly later impressions, with wide margins, some water (?) staining, otherwise apparently in good condition, unexamined out of the frames
overall Sight 55.5 x 36 cm;
and Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece, another, smaller etching by the same hand, also framed (3)