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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.
