Auction 313: Prints | 18 November 2022
Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Arch with a Shell Ornament

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Lot 301N
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720 Venedig – Rom 1778
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Etching overworked with copperplate engraving on laid paper watermarked “lily in concentric circles” (cf. Robison watermark 36). (Around 1749). 40.7 x 55.1 cm (sheet size 55.5 x 80.5 cm). Sheet XI from the series: Carceri d’Invenzione.

Result: € 7,112*

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Details

Focillon 34 ; Hind 11 II (von III); Wilton-Ely 36; Robison 37 IV (von VI); Ficacci 120.

Description

Blatt XI aus der Folge: Carceri d’Invenzione. Hervorragender, kräftiger und gegensatzreicher Abzug mit der Nummer oben rechts und vor der arabischen Nummerierung. Breitrandig. Erschienen in der zweiten Ausgabe, dritte Auflage, um 1765 in Rom. – Charakteristische Bugfalte, Papier überwiegend im Rand fleckig, die linke obere Ecke mit einem kleinen Papierverlust, ansonsten gut erhalten.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

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