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Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Giovanni Bouchard

The Grand Piazza, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

ca. 1749–50
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of six (Robison)
63.6 × 49.4 cm (25 × 19.4 in)

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