Lettere di giustificazione: presentation page with dedication to Signore Abate Venuti

SOURCE: G. B. Piranesi. Lettere di giustificazione (Rome, 1758), presentation plate NOTES: The plate has a print of a wreath made of a serpent and feathers, interwoven with a square frame of quill, dividers, pencil and paintbrush. Within this square frame Piranesi has written in ink, the following dedication, 'Per l'Illmo Signore il Sig. Abate Venuti Presidte. delle Antichita Romane.'