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GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI Prisoners on a Projecting Platform.
Etching, engraving and burnishing, circa 1749. 417x553 mm; 16 1/2x22 7/8 inches. First state (of 6), before the addiitonal heavy shading and the number, with the strong dabbing of ink on the underside of the platform. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. From Carceri d'Invenzione. A brilliant, richly-inked, dark and early impression; extremely scare in this issue. Robison 36.
