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Giovanni Battista Piranesi Italian
Engraver Francesco Piranesi Italian
Giuseppe Cades Italian
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Title: Bound Volume I of "Le Antichità Romane" (Roman Antiquities) opening with 1779 portrait of Giambattista after Cades and title page dedicated to Gustav III of Sweden
Artist:
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, Mogliano Veneto 1720–1778 Rome)
Engraver:
Francesco Piranesi (Italian, Rome 1758–1810 Paris)
Artist:
Giuseppe Cades (Italian, Rome 1750–1799 Rome)
Date: 1756–79
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 22 3/4 x 17 in. (57.8 x 43.2 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Object Number: 2012.136.955(1–77)
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