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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plate 28: Arch of Trajan in Ancona (Arco di Trajano in Ancona), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte di quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

ca. 1748
Etching
14.1 × 27.6 cm (5.6 × 10.9 in)

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