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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Remains of the Praetorian Fort [the Poecile], Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, from Views of Rome

1770
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
36.6 × 64.9 cm (14.4 × 25.6 in)

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