ROSSINI, Luigi - Lot 114

Lot n° 114
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ROSSINI, Luigi - Lot 114
ROSSINI, Luigi Rovina della gran Basilica di S. Paolo fuori le mura accadutta li 15. Juglio. 1823. Rome, 1823. Sheet (52 x 73 cm). Large and beautiful etched view, in black on laid paper (47 x 65 cm at the bowl), (very discreet marginal soiling). Veduta from the magnum opus of the famous engraver Luigi Rossini (1790-1857), Antichità Romane ossia raccolta delle più interessanti vedute di Roma antica, published in 1823. Regarded as the heir to Piranese, here he reports on the collapse of the great Paleo-Christian and medieval basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in a fire in July 1823. A fine copy.
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