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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior view of the ancient Temple of Bacchus, now the church of S. Urbano, two miles from Rome, from Views of Rome

1767
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
40.3 × 60 cm (15.9 × 23.6 in)

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