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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoportiucus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside Rome on the Frascati road, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

ca. 1766
Etching; second state of four (Hind)
52.5 × 73.5 cm (20.7 × 28.9 in)

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