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GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)
The Pier with Chains, Plate XVI from: Carceri d'Invenzione
etching with engraving, open bite and burnishing
circa 1749-60
on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in a single Circle (Robison 5)
a fine impression of the first state (of five), First Edition, first to third issue
before various changes to the composition and before the plate number and the signature
printing richly, slightly unevenly in places, with smudges of plate tone to the left of the two figures
with margins
the central fold partially broken and backed, with some associated staining
Plate 40,5 x 54,3 cm. (16 x 211⁄4 in.)
Sheet 48 x 62,4 cm. (19 x 241⁄2 in.)
Provenance
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 24 June 1983, lot 167.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
H. Focillon, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi, Paris, 1918, no. 39.
A. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A critical Study, with a list of his published Works and detailed Catalogues of the Prisons and the Views of Rome, London, 1922, no. 16 (other impressions ill.).
A. Robison, Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies - A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Washington, 1986, no. 42 (other impressions ill.).
J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings, San Francisco, 1994, no. 41 (other impressions ill.).
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