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(The references to Hind indicate etchings from Le Vedute di Roma. Thus Hind
3, 1 means the View of Rome catalogued as No. 3, in the first state, in Hind's Gio
vanni Battista Piranesi. The etchings reproduced are all from the Metropolitan Mu
seum of Art, New York, except fig. 99.)
2, 3, 6. Drawings in the Morgan Library. The orb and cross on fig. 6 connect this
gondola with a king or his ambassador. Venice gave state receptions to Ferdi
nand HI of Poland in 1740, and to Joseph II of Austria in 1769 and 1775. The
gondola might also have been made for an ambassador's state entry.
9-23. Invenzioni Capric di Carceri, the complete first issue of the etchings, numbered
according to the second edition, about 1761, as Carceri d'Invenzione.
35. 36. 38, 39, 43, 44- Etchings from Le Antichità Romane, 1756.
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