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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 Views of Rome

1766
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
41.8 × 59.8 cm (16.5 × 23.5 in)

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