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Album

Album of Italy. Malerischs - Album d'Italie, 1800

Estimate

€ 200 - 400

Sold

€ 645

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Information

Trieste, Literarisch-artistische Abteilung des Österreichischen Lloyd, sec. XIX. In 2nd oblong. Album with two sheets with the list of engravings in different languages, followed by 50 engraved plates based on drawings by various artists and made by various engravers who sign them in the plate, defects on the margins of some plates, and with the indication of the place depicted, some plates with stains on the white margins, margins of the last pages yellowed, original brown shagreen binding plates decorated with embossed frame, in the center of the plate in gold ''Album d'Italia'', slight defects.


Specialist Notes

Fascinating album of 50 views of cities, lake and mountain towns of various Italian regions: 17 dedicated to Veneto, 11 to Lombardy, 2 to Friuli, 2 to Piedmont, 1 to Tuscany and the Marches, 12 to Lazio, 2 to Campania and Sicily. The plates were made on the drawings of P. Chevalier, P. Ahrens, A. Blashinik, C. Martinelli, G. Pezoltr, and engraved by G. Kurz, H. Henschel, C. Bertrand, G. Hess, F. Zahn , E. Obermeyer, G.A. Troitzsch.