Life is short and art is long, Man finds his chiefest joy in song. L'Uomo e discorde, e l'armonia gli piace; E cercando il piacer non ha mai pace.
Domienico Maiotto Pin. Ex Calcographia I. Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S Fine engraving. Plate: 340 x 270mm (13½ x 10½"), with very large margins. Later impression. Some creasing and light foxing. A concert scene in which a woman sings from a sheet of music while a man to her right plays the violin and a woman behind plays a lute.
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Veduta dell'ingresso alla Villa di Gamberaia del Sr. Marchese Cappioni.
G. Zocchi del. J. Wagner Scolp. [n.d. c.1744.] Etching and engraving with large margins. Plate 305 x 482mm (12 x 19"). Very fine; tears to margins. Plate 45: view of the entrance to the villa Gamberaia of Marchese Capponi. Villa Gamberaia, a 14th-century villa near Settignano outside Florence, is characterised by an 18th-century terraced garden. From "Vedute delle ville e d'altri luoghi della Toscana".
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