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Web Auction 99 - WORKS ON PAPER: OLD MASTER, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTS, 19TH AND 20TH DRAWINGS, ANTIQUE MAPS.
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LOT 168:
Two cinerary Urns Artist proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, wide margins, representing “two cinerary urns”. ...
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Two cinerary Urns Artist proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, wide margins, representing “two cinerary urns”. Etching with good contrasts and sharp details, with a dedication to “Signor Giovanni Corbet, Cavaliere inglese”. Signed on plate “Cavalier Piranesi F..” in lower left margin. Very good conditions, with normal fold, left margin lightly damaged, and little holes in higher margin due to the binding of the volume “Vases and Candelabras”. Giovanni Battista Piranesi Undoubtedly Piranesi was one of the most important engravers in 18th century even if he was well-known as an architect and an archaeologist: the greatest engraver in the period from Rembrandt a Goya. The generations after him have continued to imagine the Ancient Rome as the artist has portrayed his magnificent in "Vedute". References: L. FICACCI, Piranesi, The Complete Etchings, Taschen, p.601, fig. 760; A.A.V.V., Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Architetture, fantasie e grotteschi, Antichità Romane, Catalogo 24, Antiquarius, Roma, 2004, p. 72.
79.5 x 57.5
