Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Remains of a Covered Portico

Etching on paper, 1766, the full title Remains of a covered portico, or a cryptoporticus, in a villa of Domitian, five miles outside of Rome on the Frascati road, from the series Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), mounted and framed below glass.

Sheet sight 19 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.; Frame dimensions 25 3/4 x 32 3/8 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Foxing and toning to the sheet, a centerfold crease and several minor edge tears, not examined outside the frame.