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[Angela Merici.] D.N. Pio VI Pont Max. Effigiem Angelae Mericiae Matris dedicat Sodalitas Ursulinarum quod oraculo eius honores caelitum Sactorum tantae Magistrae decreti sunt.
Petrus Angetti inv et del. Carolus Antoni sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Engraving., on verso ink Maria Teresa Gasvarni; 505 x 325mm (20 x 12¾"), with large margins. Slight foxing. Uncut.
An allegory of the canonisation of Angela Merici (1474-1540), founder of the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 for the education of poor girls. From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54967] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
[Marmore Falls] Pio Sexto Pont. Opt. Max. Bonarum Artium Auspici et Patrono. Velinum aere expressum per Fossam Curianam nunc Clementinam in Narem defluentem Interamnatium et Reatinorum dissidüs celeberrimum.
Philippus Hackert Delineavit. Carolus Antonini Sculpsit Romæ.
Franciscus Carrara Bergomas S. Congrgationis Concilii a Secretis D.D.D. [n.d., c.1779.]
Etching. 610 x 420mm (24 x 16½"), with large margins. Uncut. Mint.
A view of the spectacular man-made waterfall created by the Romans on the river Velino near Terni, Umbria. In 1779 Cardinal Francesco Carrara presented to the pope a dissertation on the Terni waterfalls, 'La caduta del Velino nella Nera', probably commisioning this etching at that time. Hackert's preparatory drawing is in the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf. From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 54971] £750.00
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