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'Two Chimneypieces: One on a sheet illusionistically superimposed on the other, the former having a bucranium flanked by harpies on a lintel', plate 22 from a set of 49 plates, G. Piranesi, Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi desunte dall'architettura Egizia, Etrusca e Greca, vol.XX, bound in Paris by Tessier, 1803-1807, etching with engraving, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rome

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