Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1720-1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 'Veduta del Tempio di Cibele a Piazza della Bocca della Verita'. Kopparstick, gulnat papper, ljusare rand i mitten och överkanten. Märkt i plåten 'Piranesi Archit.dis. ed incise' samt 'Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinita de Monti'. Troligen III editionen, (1:a Paris editionen). Litt: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Arthur M. Hind. . "Following Piranesi's death in 1778, his children carried on his publications in Rome until 1798. Two years later, the artist's sons moved to Paris, taking with them their father's original copper plates and from their new location reissuing his prints until 1839 when the Camera Apostolica bought the plates."