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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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A New Book of Ornaments Consisting of Compartment Decorations of Theaters, Ceilings, Chimney Pieces, Doors, Windows and other Beautyful Forms Usefull to Painters, Carvers, Engravers, &c. Invented by Angelo Rosis Florentine. Engrav'd by Ant. Visentini Venitian.
Publish'd Nov. 1st 1753 by ye Proprietor F. Vivares at the Golden Head, in Newport Street, near Licester Fields London.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed close to printed border, repaired tear at top.
The titlepage and first plate of a book on ornamental designs by Angiolo Rosis (or Angelo, 1670-1742), with the title engraved within a roccoco design featuring an artist's palette, pen, set square, and pair of compasses. The plates were engraved from drawings found after Rosis's death, by Antonio Visentini (1688-1772) and first published by Francesco Zuccarelli in 1747.
[Ref: 60215] £320.00
Publish'd Nov. 1st 1753 by ye Proprietor F. Vivares at the Golden Head, in Newport Street, near Licester Fields London.
Scarce engraving. Sheet 370 x 255mm (14½ x 10"). Trimmed close to printed border, repaired tear at top.
The titlepage and first plate of a book on ornamental designs by Angiolo Rosis (or Angelo, 1670-1742), with the title engraved within a roccoco design featuring an artist's palette, pen, set square, and pair of compasses. The plates were engraved from drawings found after Rosis's death, by Antonio Visentini (1688-1772) and first published by Francesco Zuccarelli in 1747.
[Ref: 60215] £320.00
![[The Grand Canal] Ex Aede Salutis, usque ad Caput Canalis.](jpegs/65157.jpg)
[The Grand Canal] Ex Aede Salutis, usque ad Caput Canalis.
[engraved by Antonio Visentini after Canaletto.]
[Venice: Giuseppe Battaggia, 1733.]
Fine etching. 275 x 430mm (10¾ x 17"), with very large margins. Some foxing.
A view of the Grand Canal with the church of Santa Maria della Salute on the right. From 'Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum', a volume of fourteen engravings by Antonio Visentini after paintings by Canaletto in the collection of his great British patron, Joseph Smith. The paintings were all bought by George III and are in the Royal Collection, while preliminary drawings for each engraving are in the British Museum and the Museo Correr (Venice).
[Ref: 65157] £420.00
[engraved by Antonio Visentini after Canaletto.]
[Venice: Giuseppe Battaggia, 1733.]
Fine etching. 275 x 430mm (10¾ x 17"), with very large margins. Some foxing.
A view of the Grand Canal with the church of Santa Maria della Salute on the right. From 'Prospectus Magni Canalis Venetiarum', a volume of fourteen engravings by Antonio Visentini after paintings by Canaletto in the collection of his great British patron, Joseph Smith. The paintings were all bought by George III and are in the Royal Collection, while preliminary drawings for each engraving are in the British Museum and the Museo Correr (Venice).
[Ref: 65157] £420.00