Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

from the Rome edition of ‘Vedute di Roma’, (presumably in its first and only state for this edition as Hind defines the first state as Paris edition), the view of various monumental ruins dominated by the tombs attributed to Piso Licinianus on the ancient Appian Way, also including ‘B. Sepolcro della famiglia Cornelia’, and ‘C. Rovine di altri antichi Sepolcri’,

etching with engraving on thick laid paper, 410 x 610 mm. (16 1/8 x 24 in), with full margins still retaining the original binding stitch holes along the left sheet edge, the margin surfaces with some residual adhesive marks from earlier mounting, all well outside the platemark, the sheet lined with tissue, well presented hinged into decorative conservation mount, [F.777; W-E.205; H.72i],