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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plate 1: Part of the Forum of Nerva (Parte del Foro di Nerva), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

ca. 1748
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13.5 × 27 cm (5.3 × 10.6 in)

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