Lettere di giustificazione scritte a Milord Charlemont e a' di lui agenti di Roma dal signor Piranesi socio della Real Società degli Antiquari di Londra, intorno la dedica della sua opera delle antichità Rom[ane] fatta allo stesso signori ed ultimamente soppressa.

Main entry:

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.

Title & Author:

Publication:

In Roma : [publisher not identified], MDCCLVII [1757]

Description:

[2], xxviii pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations (etchings) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Etched title-plate.
Includes etched dedication plate and eight plates numbered I-VIII.
Library copy: imperfect: wanting pl. I-II.
Library copy: with: fourth letter of retraction in parallel Italian and French dated Rome, 15th March 1758, bound in.
Library copy: binding: 19th-century boards.
Library copy: Piranesi's handwritten dedication to David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield (1727-1796).

Resources:
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Subject:

Italian Architects.

Added entries:

Mansfield, David Murray, Earl of, 1727-1796.
Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799.
Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Lord, 1728-1799

Holdings:

Location: Library cage 105354
Call No.: ID:94-B2184
Status: Available

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