May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Prisoners on a Projecting Platform.

Etching, engraving and burnishing, 1749-50. 417x553 mm; 16 1/2x22 7/8 inches, full margins. Fourth state (of 6); 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 brilliant, richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Robison 36.