Auction 316: Prints | 25 May 2023
Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The round tower

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Auction 316
Lot 354N
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720 Venedig – Rom 1778
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Etching and engraving on laid paper with watermark “lily in a double circle” (cf. Robison watermark 36). (Around 1749). 55 x 41.5 cm (sheet 79.5 x 56.3 cm). Sheet III from the series: Carceri d’Invenzione.

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Details

Focillon 26; Hind 3 II (von III); Robison 30 IV (von VI).

Description

Blatt III aus der Folge: Carceri d’Invenzione. Prachtvoller, prägnanter und tiefschwarzer Frühdruck mit der römischen Nummerierung oben links und den hinzugefügten Ringen an der Säule und im Rand links. Herausgegeben vom Künstler in der zweiten Ausgabe, dritte Auflage, um 1765-74 in Rom. Breitrandig. – Charakteristischer Mittelfalz, überwiegend im Randbereich fingerfleckig, die Ecken leicht bestoßen. Verso mit Resten und Spuren von ehemaliger Montierung, ansonsten sehr schönes Exemplar.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

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