Rare catalogue of Piranesi’s work

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Catalogo delle Opere date Finora alla luce da Gio. Battista Piranesi.

PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista
Rome,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi,
Broadsheet etching.
470 by 290mm. (18.5 by 11.5 inches).
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An original, illustrated single etched sheet, Piranesi's Catalogo offered a periodically-updated list of the works engraved and published by Piranesi. Each work is briefly described, and a short statement of the contents and sometimes the price is provided. The physical design comprises advertising text surrounded by a receding entablature of several framed vedute of Rome within a setting of Roman antiquities.

Piranesi's Catalogo remains an intriguing association...