Giovanni Battista Piranesi

(Italian, 1720-1778)Pianta di Roma, a rare plan of Rome with surrounding fragments of the Forma Urbisÿfrom Le Antichita Romane, Vol. I Plate II, Rome, 1756, etching with engraving on double sheet laid paper with double circle fleur de lysÿwith "V" watermark (1756-1761), plate 18-1/4 x 20-3/4 in. page 20-1/2 x 30-1/4 in.; unframed
Condition Report: light toning and foxing, few pencil inscriptions, handling grime, centerfold crease and a few smaller creasesÿ