May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
GIOVANNI B. PIRANESI
Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo.

Etching, 1757. 440x697 mm; 17 1/4x27 3/8 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 4). The letters PM surmounted by a geometric cross-like shape watermark (Robison 73, which he dates from the late 1790s). From the Vedute di Roma. A superb, dark and richly-inked impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear.

The Vedute di Roma is a series of 134 etchings of famous Roman buildings, ruins and monuments created by Piranesi (1720-1778) over nearly three decades (circa 1748-circa 1777), which stands as one of the most ambitious and successful printmaking productions of all time. Hind 57.