Lot 207 – Engraving depicting the transport of an obelisk in Rome, Italy 18th century

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At the bottom it bears the inscription ‘Quae Architectonice artis insigne monumentum in Agyptiaca Obelisco Romam aduecta exhibet Tabula, seruatur in aedibus Emi, ac Rmi Card. Petri Aloysy Carafe’. Flawed, unsigned to identify the author and unframed. Copper engraving, dimensions 17.7×22.4 in.

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