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Terranova. A. Pezzo di pavimento rivilto in modo del tremoto centrale che la base è in luogo di superficie e quaesta in luogo di quella.
Pom' Schiantarelli A.d.d. dal vero. A. Zaballi R.I. scol.
[Naples, 1784.]
Engraving with original colour, margins with grey wash. 210 x 330mm (8½ x 13"), with large margins.
A view of the town of Villanova, which was badly damaged by the Calabrian earthquakes of February and March 1793. Pompeo Schiantarelli (1746-1802/5), an architect, led a team from Neapolitan Academy of Science and Letters to record the devastation, which killed 35,000 people in the region. He also helped with the rebuilding efforts, planning two towns, Polistena and Mileto. Schianarellu published his account as 'Istoria de' fenomeni del tremoto avvenuto nelle Calabrie e nel Valdemone nell'anno 1783' (Account of the Effects of the Earthquake in Calabria in 1783). The plates are very similar in style to those in William Hamilton's study of volcanoes, 'Campi Phlegraei', 1776-9, also published in Naples.
[Ref: 37116] £220.00
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Luigi Filip. Guis. Borbone Duca Di Orleans, Do. Filippo Egalite Nato li 4 Aprile 1747.
A. Zaballi f.
in Napoli presso Talani e Gervasi al Gigante No. 3.7 [n.d. c.1795].
Etching. 130 x 185mm.
Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orleans, known as Philippe Égalité [1747 - 1793]. A deputy to the States-General, his liberal views were suspected of cloaking an ambition to become constitutional monarch, and as the revolution progressed he lost the confidence of both republicans and royalists. After exchanging his title for the name Citizen Égalité, he was elected to the National Convention in September 1792 and voted for the execution of King Louis XVI but was himself arrested and guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1793. His son became King Louis Philippe. Collection of the Royal House of Savoy and Italy.
[Ref: 6770] £90.00
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