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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Capitoline Hill with the steps to the Church of S. Maria in Aracoeli, from Views of Rome

1750/59
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
38.4 × 54 cm (15.1 × 21.3 in)

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