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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Villa of His Eminence Cardinal Alessandro Albani, outside Porta Salaria, from Views of Rome

1769, published 1800–07
Etching on ivory laid paper
48.2 × 70.5 cm (19 × 27.8 in)

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