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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Temple of Hercules at Cori, ten miles distant from Velletri, from Views of Rome

1769, published 1800–07
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
38 × 52.4 cm (15 × 20.6 in)

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