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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Elevation and plan of the second-order portico at the Theater of Marcellus (Teatro di Marcello), Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'

1756
Etching
52 × 37.2 cm (20.5 × 14.6 in)

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