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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Colosseum, from Vedute di Roma (H. 57)
etching, 1757, first state (of four), a fine impression, with the address and price, from a contemporary Roman Edition, with margins, the usual central vertical crease, a narrow vertical printers crease left of centre, pale foxing mainly on the reverse, tape at the reverse sheet edges, P. 442 x 706 mm.; and The Tiber at the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima (formerly called the Bel Lido), with the round Temple and S. Marca in Cosmedin in the Background (H. 125 i/iii), etching, from a Roman Edition, framed (2)
The Colosseum, from Vedute di Roma (H. 57)
etching, 1757, first state (of four), a fine impression, with the address and price, from a contemporary Roman Edition, with margins, the usual central vertical crease, a narrow vertical printers crease left of centre, pale foxing mainly on the reverse, tape at the reverse sheet edges, P. 442 x 706 mm.; and The Tiber at the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima (formerly called the Bel Lido), with the round Temple and S. Marca in Cosmedin in the Background (H. 125 i/iii), etching, from a Roman Edition, framed (2)