Giovanni Battista MERCATI – Il Medesimo (the baths of Titus), 1629

Giovanni Battista MERCATI
ca 1600 Borgo S. Sepulcro + après 1637
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Bartsch nr 23. Good impression. Marges latérales agrandies; collée par deux angles sur carton; plis marginaux. Good margins. Plate to a set of fifty-two view of Roma dedicated to the duc of Médicis, Ferdinand of Toscane. (Mercato anticipates Piranèse’s work in many ways)