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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Title-page for the 'Vedute di Roma' comprising a stone in the background inscribed with the title, a classical vase and fragments of columns in the foreground

1760–78
Etching; fourth state of five
52.8 × 76.7 cm (20.8 × 30.2 in)

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