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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A. View of the Tomb of Licinianus Piso on the ancient Appian Way... B. Tomb of the Cornelii..., from Views of Rome

1764, published 1800–07
Etching on heavy ivory laid paper
40.5 × 60.3 cm (15.9 × 23.7 in)

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