[Classical ruin.]
Clerisau del. Wagner Scul. Venezia C.P.E.S. [n.d., c. 1760.] Rare etching. 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½), large margins. Slight crease in title. After Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), draughtsman and architect. He went to Rome in 1749 and was working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam’s 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution.
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