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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori delle mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls] on the Appian Way, from Views of Rome

1750/59
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
41.6 × 66 cm (16.4 × 26 in)

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