Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

a view of the classical theatre of Marcellus, later redeveloped by Baldessare da Siena into the Palazzo Orsini, from the Rome edition of ‘Vedute di Roma’, third state bearing the artist’s Palazzo Tomati, Strada Felice address and price of two and a half paoli,

etching with engraving on laid paper bearing a fleur-de-lys in double circle watermark, 405 x 550 mm. (16 x 21 5/8 in), some marginal browning towards sheet edges, but well outside the platemark, faint spotting, well presented hinged into decorative conservation mount, [F.818; W-E.157; H.33iii],