Live auction - Lot 628
[Italian]
Veduta del Castello dell'Acqua Paola sul Monte Aureo.
Rome, 1751
€ 400 / 600
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Lot description
Etching, 40,5 x 61 cm (platemark), laid paper with watermark (fleur-de-lis, in a double-circle, similar to Churchill: 368), signed in scroll on lower left with title and numbered key, above "G. B. Piranesi Architetto" and "Presso l'Autore a Strada Felice vicino all Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo".
View of the fountainhead of the Acqua Paola on Monte Aureo, from the series "Vedute di Roma". Strong impression with good contrasts of the 2nd state (of 4).
Ref. Hind 21:2. - Wilton-Ely 174:2