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G.B. Piranesi – Vedute di Roma – Porta Maggiore
“Veduta del Monumento eretto dall'Imperator Tito Vespasiano per aver ristaurati gl'Aquedotti dell…”
The Porta Maggiore, originally an archway of the Aqua Claudia and the Anio novus.
Copper engraving by G.B. Piranesi (1720 – 1778), Signature: Cavalier Piranesi F. First Paris Edition, before the numbering in the cartouche. Vedute di Roma, Paris (First Edition) 1800-1807
Sheet size: 56,5 cm x 81,5 cm; Print size: 49 cm x 75 cm
Beautiful nuanced print on handmade paper, usual straightened centre fold, at the outer margins minor creases and a few small tears, altogether in very good condition.
Hind 119/I, Focillon 839
€ 3.900,-