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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Basilica of San Sebastiano fuori delle mura [St. Sebastian outside the Walls] on the Appian Way, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

ca. 1750
Etching; first state of four (Hind)
52 × 77.5 cm (20.5 × 30.5 in)

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