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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;abuadam97, post: 3116904, member: 10823&quot;]After further research, I found online an ebook at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Al1NAQAAMAAJ&amp;rdid=book-Al1NAQAAMAAJ&amp;rdot=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Al1NAQAAMAAJ&amp;rdid=book-Al1NAQAAMAAJ&amp;rdot=1" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Al1NAQAAMAAJ&amp;rdid=book-Al1NAQAAMAAJ&amp;rdot=1</a></p><p>*** The name of the book: </p><p>Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study, with a List of His Published Works and Detailed Catalogues of the Prisons and the Views of Rome</p><p>Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study, with a List of His Published Works and Detailed Catalogues of the Prisons and the Views of Rome</p><p><br /></p><p>My etching is from the Views of Rome</p><p><br /></p><p>On Page 25:</p><p>THE PALAZZO DELLA CONSULTA . 38. F. 737 . 1729 ( 1749 ) Title : Veduta del Palazzo fabbricato sul Quirinale per le Segreterie de Brevi e della Sacra Consulta . ( 153 * 245. ] Signed , lower r . margin : Gio . Battista Piranesi Architetto dis . e incise . 1. Address : Bouchard e Gravier . DAVIES . II . Address and price : Autore , Palazzo Tomati . Paoli 27. B.M. B.M.L. B.M.L. , KING&#039;s . TUBBS . III . Added work in sky ( dark horizontals near upper border ) . B.M. IV . Price erased . SOANE . TUBBS . Ist Paris Ed . V. Number 38 lower r . margin . Intermed . Paris Ed . VI . Number 722 towards r . above . Ed . Firmin - Didot , Paris . </p><p>(Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) </p><p><br /></p><p>It says Number 38 lower r. margin</p><p><br /></p><p>So it looks like this print etching is from this book.</p><p><br /></p><p>I added a comment that I opened the frame and that the paper is a bit thick but still can see the outine of the work from the back. It seems like woodblock, the ink will get in the paper and can be seen from the back of the print</p><p>The lines are crisp and only black and white colors seen. No grey colors.</p><p>I can feel with my finger the plate mark at the edges. Under the loupe, no dot matrix but clear line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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