GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)
Lot 116PROPERTY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR ERIC STANLEY

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)

Three Plates, from: Vedute di Roma

Fermé28 January 2021

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)
Three Plates, from: Vedute di Roma
including: Veduta di un Eliocamino per abitarvi l'Inverno nella Villa Adriana, etching, 1777, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in a Double Circle with Letter B (Hind 3, Robison 34), a very fine and rich impression of Hind's first state (of three); and Interno del Tempio d.o di Canopo nella Villa Adriana, etching, 1776, on thick laid paper, apparently without watermark, a very fine impression of Hind's first state (of three); and Veduta interna dell'antico Tempio di Bacco, in oggi chiesa di S. Urbano, etching, 1767, on thick laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in a Double Circle with Letter B (Hind 3, Robison 34), a fine impression of Hind's second state (of four)


Plate 423 x 603 mm., Sheet 556 x 790 mm. (H. 133)
Plate 454 x 583 mm., Sheet 558 x 789 mm. (H. 131)
Plate 425 x 606 mm., Sheet 546 x 794 mm. (H. 81)
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Unidentified initials W.A. in pen and brown ink recto (not in Lugt).
With Colnaghi & Co., London (their faint stock number C.37226, in pencil recto) (H. 81)
Christie's, London, 1 December 1987, lots 159, 162-163.
Eric G. Stanley (1923-2018), Oxford; acquired at the above sale (through Artemis Fine Arts, London) (H. 81, 131, 133).