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GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI The Smoking Fire.
Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite and burnishing 1749-50. 549x403 mm; 21 3/4x16 inches, full margins. Sixth state (of 7); Robison's second edition, fourth issue through early printings of fifth edition, printed from the mid-1770s to circa 1835. 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 32.
