The Pier with a Lamp, from: Carceri d'Invenzione Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Plate XV from: Carceri d’Invenzione. A very fine, richly inked lifetime impression of Robison’s first state (of seven), printing with strong contrasts, before the addition of the wooden bridges and stairways in the background and before the ink dabbing along the right side of the lamppost. From the First Edition, First and Second Issues, published in Rome circa 1749–60. With wide margins around the partially uncleaned plate edges. – With binding holes along the left edge and with the characteristic flattened central fold; faint handling creases. Verso with old adhesive tape in the upper corners. Otherwise in very good condition. Very rare in this early state. | 1720 Venice - Rome 1778 | 15.-18. Jahrhundert | Druckgrafik | Nummer: 26x1365 | Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 28 February 1988.

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