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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Basilica of S. Paolo fuori delle Mura [St. Paul outside the Walls], built by Constantine the Great, from Views of Rome

1750/59
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
37.9 × 61.2 cm (14.9 × 24.1 in)

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