Apr 28, 2022 - Sale 2602

Sale 2602 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
The Skeletons.

Etching, engraving and drypoint, circa 1750. 395x555 mm; 15 1/2x21 3/4 inches, wide margins. Third state (of 5); Robison's second edition, sixth issue, through third edition, first issue, printed from the mid-1770s to the late 1780s. Fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark (Robison 36, which he dates from around 1760 to 1780). From Grotteschi. A superb, richly-inked impression with strong contrasts. Robison 21.