May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 7,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Carceri d'Invenzione: Title Plate.

Etching and engraving, 1749-50. 553x419 mm; 21 3/4x15 1/2 inches, full margins. Seventh state (of 9); Robison's second edition, third issue, published by the artist in Rome (which dates from the mid-1760s to the early 1770s). Fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark. From Carceri d'Invenzione. A very good, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts. Robison 29.