Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Print

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19th century

18th century

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)

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Beautiful original specimen of the first title page of the 'Antichità d'Albano e di Castel Gandolfo descritte ed incise da Giovambattista Piranesi', still in the Roman edition. Title of the work and the author's name inscribed on fragments of ancient marble, a fiction to which

Etching - Plate signed - 1764

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Primo frontespizio delle Antichità d'Albano e di Castel Gandolfo

Sheet with ample margins beyond the plate mark, on heavy nineteenth-century paper, in excellent condition (see photo).
Edition from the late 19th century, Calcografia Regia, without a blind stamp, present only on six plates of the series.
In the upper left corner is “Tav. 8” of

Etching - Plate signed, Not signed - 1748

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Tempio di Giove tonante

Beautiful original specimen in the Calcografia Regia edition (dry stamp in the lower right corner) of plate III of the "Carceri d'invenzione," the series of etchings Piranesi is best known for, published in a first edition around 1749-1750 and revised in a second in 1761, a work

Etching - Plate signed - 1761

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - La torre rotonda tav. 3 di Carceri d'invenzione

Rare original engraving from the series of four plates, "Grotteschi," produced by Piranesi around 1745, considered his first true masterwork of artistic maturity, here in the definitive edition of the Calcografia Regia. The series marks the shift from pure architectural veduta to

Etching - Plate signed - 1750

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Gli scheletri

Beautiful original engraving from “First part of architectures and invented and etched by Gio. Batta Piranesi, Venetian architect”, a work consisting of frontispiece and 12 plates published for the first time in Rome by the Pagliarini brothers in 1743, here in definitive state,

Etching - Plate signed - 1743

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Ara antica sopra la quale si facevano anticamente i sacrifizi, con altre ruine all'intorno

Beautiful original engraving that anticipates the themes of the 'Carceri d'invenzione', absolute masterpieces of Piranesi's visionary graphics, coming from 'First Part of Architectures and Invented and Engraved Perspectives by Gio. Batta Piranesi, Venetian architect', a work

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Carcere oscura con Antenna pel suplizio dè malfatori

Beautiful original engraving from "First Part of Architectures and Prospects Invented and Engraved by Gio. Batta Piranesi, Venetian Architect", a work consisting of a title page and 12 plates published for the first time in Rome by the Pagliarini brothers in 1743, here in its

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Vestiggi d'antichi Edifici fra i quali evvi l'Urna Sepolcrale...

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