PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Alcune vedute di archi trionfali, ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte de quali si veggono in Roma, e parte per l'Italia . [Rome: Calcografia Reale, 1839 or later]. Broadsheet (452 x 628mm). Etched throughout. Title with decorative surround, dedication leaf, 2 leaves of text, 28 etched plates (numbered 365-366, 367a-b, 368, 369a-d, 370a-d, 371a-d, 372a-d, 373a-d, 374a-d, 375a-b, 376), 27 by G.B.Piranesi, 1 by Francesco Piranesi (Title spotted and with 180mm tear to blank margin, about six other plates with minor spotting.) Old wrappers (worn, torn, backstrip lacking). Provenance : Regia Calcografia di Roma (blind-stamp to upper outer corners of six plates). LATE ISSUE OF PIRANESI'S 'GRAPHIC MASTERPIECES' (Wilton-Ely. Giovanni Battista Piranesi , 1994, p.144). 'These exquisite plates, based on sketches made during Piranesi's travels in Italy, c.1743-7, and subdivided into "Part I: Ruins outside Rome" and "Part II: Ruins within Rome", may be considered among the artist's graphic masterpieces. They possess a unity of and range of experiment lacking in the Varie Vedute and even in the early plates of the larger Vedute di Roma ' (Wilton-Ely. op.cit. p.144). Ficacci pp.106-121; Focillon 40-71; Hind p.76.
PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778). Alcune vedute di archi trionfali, ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte de quali si veggono in Roma, e parte per l'Italia . [Rome: Calcografia Reale, 1839 or later]. Broadsheet (452 x 628mm). Etched throughout. Title with decorative surround, dedication leaf, 2 leaves of text, 28 etched plates (numbered 365-366, 367a-b, 368, 369a-d, 370a-d, 371a-d, 372a-d, 373a-d, 374a-d, 375a-b, 376), 27 by G.B.Piranesi, 1 by Francesco Piranesi (Title spotted and with 180mm tear to blank margin, about six other plates with minor spotting.) Old wrappers (worn, torn, backstrip lacking). Provenance : Regia Calcografia di Roma (blind-stamp to upper outer corners of six plates). LATE ISSUE OF PIRANESI'S 'GRAPHIC MASTERPIECES' (Wilton-Ely. Giovanni Battista Piranesi , 1994, p.144). 'These exquisite plates, based on sketches made during Piranesi's travels in Italy, c.1743-7, and subdivided into "Part I: Ruins outside Rome" and "Part II: Ruins within Rome", may be considered among the artist's graphic masterpieces. They possess a unity of and range of experiment lacking in the Varie Vedute and even in the early plates of the larger Vedute di Roma ' (Wilton-Ely. op.cit. p.144). Ficacci pp.106-121; Focillon 40-71; Hind p.76.
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