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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Remains of the temple of the god Canopus at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1768
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
44.7 × 57.9 cm (17.6 × 22.8 in)

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