MBA002: Lot 49. PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista.

For the “”Veduta di Roma””, posthumous Rome edition.

Description

from the Rome edition of 'Vedute di Roma', etching with engraving, on thick laid paper with a rampant lion in crowned shield and Bracciano watermarks, a posthumous issue of the 3rd state with the artist's address but the price erased (Hind gives as 1st Paris edition), 550 x 405 mm., a central horizontal fold, binding perforations in the upper margin, wide margins with occasional short tears and small losses at sheet edges, [H.53 III; F.800; WE.164]

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