View of Trevi Fountain - SOLD

View of Trevi Fountain  is an original etching realized by the italian artist  Giovanni Battista Piranesi  

Very precoius and rare full margin specimen. Roman edition. III state of VII.

Complete title on the lower margin of plate: Veduta della Vasta Fontana di Trevi anticamente detta l'Acqua Vergine.

Reference:

Cat. Ficacci Ed. Taschen n.883

Cat. Hind n. 19

The state of preservation of the artwork is good except for very light folds and foxings along the margins. Very rare in this conditions.

The artwork represents a beautiful scenery of Trevi Fountain.  The print is characterized by soft and delicate strokes that define the composition in a balance and harmony

Giovanni Battista Piranesi  is well-known as an architect, an archaeologist and, undoubtedly as the most important engraver of the 18th century: the leading artist in this field in the period going from Rembrandt to Goya.

Generations after him would continue to imagine Ancient Rome as he portrayed it in his magnificent “ Vedute ”. In the last period, Piranesi’s activities, above all as an editor, were characterised by a more commercial flavour. By this time he was already very famous, and created the series of decorative plates of antiquities, collected in his work “Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi pubblicati l’anno MDCCLXXIIX”, 1778, (Vases, candelabras, grave,stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cav. Gio.Batt. Piranesi, published in the year 1778), printed and integrated by his son Francesco.

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