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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Egyptian Obelisk. This was erected by Pope Sixtus V in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, from Views of Rome

1750/59
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
53 × 40 cm (20.9 × 15.7 in)

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