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Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Angelo Rotili

Plan of the Mausoleum of Caecilia Metella, wife of the Triumvir Marcus Crassus..., from Le Antichità Romane (Roman Antiquities), tome 3, tavola 49

published 1756–57
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54 × 77 cm (21.3 × 30.3 in)

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