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239 GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Le Antichità Romane III: frontispiece .
Etching, 1756. 400x600 mm; 153 /4 x231/2 inches, wide margins. Fleur-de-lys in a double-
circle watermark (Hind 3). A very good impression with strong contrasts.
Piranesi’s rendering of the ancient Circus of Mars in Rome, with neighboring monuments,
viewed from theVia Appia. Focillon 287;Wilton-Ely 422.
[1,200/1,800]
240 GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Ichnographiam Campi Martii antiquae urbis.
Etching and engraving from 6 plates on 6-joined sheets, 1757. 1350x1170 mm; 53x46
inches wide margins. From Il Campo Marzio dell’Antica Roma.A superb impression of this
monumental, extremely scarce print.
Piranesi’s fantastic archeological plan of ancient Rome.Though there is little correlation
between this view and the actual layout of Roman monuments, it does reveal the great
interest in antiquities and the nascent study of archeology in Piranesi’s time. Focillon 440;
Wilton-Ely 571. [3,000/5,000]
241 GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Vedute di Roma, frontispiece.
Etching, circa 1748. 500x632 mm; 195/8x247/8 inches, small to narrow margins. First state
(of 7).A superb, early, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts and with crisp, partially
inky plate edges. Hind 2. [2,500/3,500]
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