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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720 Mogliano / Mestre – Rome 1778
A vaulted building with a staircase leading round a centrel column with barred window in the centre.
Etching, 1749/50, on handmade paper. 55:41,5 cm.
Literature: Focillon 24; Robison 26; Hind 3, II, with the number “III” at upper left; Wilton-Ely 26; Taschen 110. Plate 3 from the series “Carceri” (Prisons).
Deep black impression of the second state (plate darkened throughout by additional shading, numbered III at upper left, signed in lower left: Piranesi F., Rome about 1761).
With 3,8-5 cm broad margins around the platemark, smoothed horizontal centrefold. Small loss of printer's ink at the right side, due to some debris during the printing process.
€ 5.600,-
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