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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (now called Castel Sant’Angelo) from the Rear, from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

1750/59
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
41.2 × 55.7 cm (16.2 × 21.9 in)

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