Lot 227 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano Veneto 1720 - Rome 1778), Etching dedicated to the epigraph found at the Farnese Houses

Lot 227 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano Veneto 1720 – Rome 1778), Etching dedicated to the epigraph found at the Farnese Houses

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A graphic work on laid paper and watermark, it bears at the foot the signature ‘Piranesi F.’ and the following inscriptions: ‘Haec epigraphe, quoe in aedibus farnesianis Romae servatur, edita olim fuit a grutero, et Fleetwood’. And again: ‘Ex ipso Lapide accuratius descriptam hoc loco adposiumus; quod iis, quae dicta sunt non parum consentiat, ut apparet ex adjecto schemate’. Flaws present, unframed. Etching, dimensions 15.3×23.6 in.

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