Apr 28, 2022 - Sale 2602

Sale 2602 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
The Lion Bas-Reliefs.

Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1749-50. 570x416 mm; 22 1/2x16 1/2 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3), with the Roman numeral upper left; Robison's second edition, second issue, through early printings of the fifth edition, printed from the early 1760s to circa 1835. From Carceri d'Invenzione. A superb, richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts. Robison 44.