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Original etching and burin on copper matrix printed on laid paper with wide margins and blank reverse; excellent impression without defects.
Probably printed by Firmin Didot in Paris in the period from 1810 to 1837 in which the branches of the Piranesi chalcography were owned by the same printing house; later, in 1838, the branches were purchased by the Calcografia Camerale of Rome.
Title engraved on a stone aedicule in the lower right corner with the author's signature next to it on another stone and with the number of the plate TAV 11 in the upper right corner.
Image size 13.3x26.3cm. (sheet 45x55) - Insured shipping
Shipping with costs for mainland destination (Italy, Spain and Portugal 64014723
