Author: Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Title: [Antique print, etching, Piranesi] Veduta di uno de' fianchi della facciata del portico di Ottavia (View on the facade of Portico Octavia), published 1756-1784, 1 p.
Description: Plate XLI from the fourth and last volume of Le Antichità Romane collecting plates by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, firstly published by Angelo Rotili in Rome between 1756 and 1757. The second edition appeared in 1784. Original wide margins, no traces of binding or folding. Single plate with illustration and explanatory text.Titled below: 'Veduta di uno de' fianchi della facciata del portico di Ottavia...'Signed on the bottom right: 'Piranesi Archit. dis. inc.'.Translated title: View of one of the sides of the façade of the Portico of Octavia / Gezicht op een van de facades van de Portico van Octavia. Etching with some interventions in burin on hand laid paper, with broad margins; plate mark: 392 x 595 mm; total 552 x 795 mm; frayed end margins;  otherwise in great condition. Visible watermark.

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