Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Demonstration panel showing technique for raising travertine and marble blocks for the construction of the tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome, from the series 'Le Antichità Romane'

1756
Etching
52 × 72 cm (20.5 × 28.3 in)

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