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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoporticus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

ca. 1766
Etching; first state of four (Hind)
52.5 × 67.5 cm (20.7 × 26.6 in)

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