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Staircase with Trophies, Plate VIII from: Carceri d'Invenzione
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)
Staircase with Trophies, Plate VIII from: Carceri d'Invenzione
etching, circa 1749-50, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in single Circle, a fine, bright and luminous, early impression of the first state (of five), First Edition, first or second Issue, before signature and number, with wide margins, a hard horizontal central crease mainly visible in the margins, otherwise in good condition
Plate 546 x 401 mm., Sheet 708 x 510 mm.
Staircase with Trophies, Plate VIII from: Carceri d'Invenzione
etching, circa 1749-50, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in single Circle, a fine, bright and luminous, early impression of the first state (of five), First Edition, first or second Issue, before signature and number, with wide margins, a hard horizontal central crease mainly visible in the margins, otherwise in good condition
Plate 546 x 401 mm., Sheet 708 x 510 mm.
Literature
Focillon 31; Hind 8; Robison 34
Special Notice
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