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Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1720-1778
Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi
- vedute di roma (hind 1, 3-26, 28, 30-32, 34, 37, 46-48, 51-53, 58, 59, 64, 66, 71, 79-81, 87-89, 91, 101-108, 118-122, 124, 125, 128)
- album 843 by 578mm; 33 1/8 by 22¾ in
Etchings, title, folding plan of Rome and 64 plates, very good, strong impressions from the first Paris edition, 1800-1807, Hind's edition D, with the prices erased, on paper with the Auvergne, Annonay and Dovecot watermarks (Robinson 78, 88, 89), with margins, some foxing and minor stains, otherwise the sheets in remarkably fresh condition, contemporary red half morocco by Tessier (with label), flat spine gilt
Literature
Hind, A.M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: a critical study (London, 1922)