Piranesi (Giovanni Battista)

Piranesi’s second composition for the ‘Vedute di Roma’ of the ‘remains of the dining room of Nero’s Golden House, commonly known as the Temple of Peace’, in fact the Basilica of Constantine, this time viewed from the left with far more exaggerated and imposing perspective looking up to the coffered arched, 1st state before numbers, from the Rome edition,

etching and engraving on thick laid paper, 490 x 710 mm. (19 1/4 x 28 in), the sheet partially lined with thin paper, some residual light adhesive staining in the margins, well outside the platemark, (H.114 i; F.751; W-E.247),