Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

from the Rome edition of ‘Vedute di Roma’, showing the interior of the circular church, built in the 4th century AD, traditionally thought to be by the Emperor Constantine to honour his deceased daughter Constantina, or Costanza, though this may have been a later christian rededication of an earlier pagan structure, as evidenced by some of the iconography amongst the well preserved mosaics contained within,

etching with engraving, on thick laid paper with a fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark, 3rd state with the artist’s address and price, 415 x 550 mm., a central vertical fold, faint marginal spotting and minor damp-staining, slight surface dirt towards the sheet edges, [H.37 III; F.811; WE.158],