May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Carceri d'Invenzione.

Complete set of 16 etchings with engraving, sulphur tint and open bite, 1749-50. Each in the sixth edition (of 6), final states. Published by the Regia Calcografia, Rome, with the blind stamp (Lugt 2144, lower right recto). Very good, richly-inked impressions with strong contrasts. Robison 29-44.

With--Rovine del Tempio supposto di Ercole, etching, 1764. From Antichità di Cora * Vue du Temple de Neptune, etching, 1778. From Difféentes vues de Pesto. Ficacci 597 and 861.