Auction 295: Prints | 16 June 2020
Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The pier with a lamp

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Auction 295
Lot 308N
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720 Venedig – Rom 1778
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Etching on laid paper with a trimmed watermark with a house and birds (cf. Robinson watermark no. 82). (Around 1749). 47.8 x 62 cm (sheet size). Sheet XV from the series: Carceri.

Result: € 3,750*

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Details

Focillon 38; Hind 15 II (von III); Wilton-Ely 40; Robison 41 VI (von VII); Ficacci 124.

Description

Blatt XV der Folge: Carceri. Ausgezeichneter, kräftiger Abzug mit der römischen Nummerierung oben links und den Überarbeitungen in den Ringen an der Säule. Erschienen in der zweiten Ausgabe, vierte Auflage von den 1770er Jahren bis ca. 1835. Mit einem bis zu 4 cm Rand um die Plattenkante. – Geglättete Bugfalte. Papiermängel an den Kanten und leicht fleckig, ansonsten gut erhalten.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

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