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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Remains of the Mausoleum of Augustus, plate XXI from The Campus Martius of Ancient Rome

first published 1762
Etching in black ink on cream laid paper
21.5 × 35.4 cm (8.5 × 13.9 in)

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