After Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778)

Pricing & History
After Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), "Veduta della Basilica e Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano", c. 1740s, from the compendium Vedute di Roma (Rome, issued serially from c. 1748 to c. 1778), etching and drypoint on thin whitened or bleached paper, signed lower right, plate size 15 in. x 21 1/4 in., handsomely matted and framed.Provenance: Donald A. Heald, New York.Reference: John Wilton-Ely, G.B. Piranesi: The Complete Etchings (San Francisco, 1994), vol. 1, p. 179, cat. no. 136 (Focillon 1918 no. 787), Hind 1922 no. 3, calcografia 1953 no. 687).