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Milan, Pirotta typography and bookshop, 1838. In 2nd. 461 x 330 mm. The volume consists, in total, of 9 unnumbered leaves, of which 5 of text (including the title page) framed by a border and 4 of lithographic plates - all bearing a refined contemporary colouring - engraved by P . Based on drawings by G. Bignami, taken from Chiappa's projects, contemporary binding in red half leather and percalline.
Specialist Notes
Very rare original edition of this elegant album, with all the plates bearing a fine contemporary tempera colouring.
The work was created to celebrate - and immortalize - the entrance in Milan of the emperor Ferdinand I of Austria who had gone to the Milanese city to be crowned king of the Lombardy-Veneto Kingdom on 6 September 1838. The lithographic plates in fact depict the emperor's entry into the the atrium of the Porta S. Ambrogio and the various monuments – two triumphal arches and a granite obelisk – designed by Chiappa for the occasion. In the Notice that opens the volume, the architect informs us that they were «drawings for works to be carried out on such a desired and happy occasion» and that in the tables «the said works are outlined, one of which (the obelisk) already executed in granite, the others in a temporary and decorative way".
The work was created to celebrate - and immortalize - the entrance in Milan of the emperor Ferdinand I of Austria who had gone to the Milanese city to be crowned king of the Lombardy-Veneto Kingdom on 6 September 1838. The lithographic plates in fact depict the emperor's entry into the the atrium of the Porta S. Ambrogio and the various monuments – two triumphal arches and a granite obelisk – designed by Chiappa for the occasion. In the Notice that opens the volume, the architect informs us that they were «drawings for works to be carried out on such a desired and happy occasion» and that in the tables «the said works are outlined, one of which (the obelisk) already executed in granite, the others in a temporary and decorative way".
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