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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Octagonal Room in the Small Baths at the Villa of Hadrian (Tivoli)

ca. 1777
Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal with partly ruled construction; sheet glued onto secondary paper support
39.4 × 55.3 cm (15.5 × 21.8 in)

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