Oct 17 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2682 -

Sale 2682 - Lot 94

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Veduta del Porto di Ripetta.

Etching, 1753. 395x595 mm; 15½x23⅜ inches, wide margins. Fourth state (of 8). Fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark (Hind 3). From the Vedute di Roma. Hind 28.

Additional Details

The Porto di Ripetta was a port in the city of Rome, roughly across the River Tiber from the . This was the port to alight for boats traveling downriver, toward the sea. The Ponte Cavour was contracted across the Tiber and opened in 1901, at which point the Porto di Ripetta was demolished.