Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Frontispiece for 'Antichità d'Albano

Piranesi (Giovanni Battista) Frontispiece for 'Antichità d'Albano e di Castel Gandolfo...', etching and engraving, on thick laid paper without watermark, platemark 502 x 330 mm (19 3/4 x 13 in), good margins, horizontal printers' crease visible, handling creases, some spotting and surface dirt, unframed, 1764; together with a mixed group of 10 other prints, including a mezzotint by Alfred Martin after John Martin, 3 late impression stipple engravings after Gainsborough, a large condition-compromised mezzotint portrait after Reynolds of the Calcutta-born East India Company Merchant 'Richard Bardwell and his Son', an 1837 handbill offering a £25 reward for information on a fruit tree vandal from Worcester, and others, various sizes, 770 x 545 mm (30 1/4 x 21 1/2 in), and smaller, all unframed, mainly 19th century and later (11)

Estimate:£200

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