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Brésil. 77.
Brésil. 77. Vue de Rio Janeiro, prise du Couvent de S.te Thérèse.
J. Arnout del. Lepetit sc.
26, Brésil, Lemaitre dir. [Paris Firmin Didot freres et Cie 1837.]
Engraving. 136 x 216mm. 5¼ x 8½".
A view of Rio de Janeiro from Santa, the hilltop district upon which sits the Convent of Santa Theresa of Avila, which was founded in 1750 by sisters Jacinta and Francisca Rodrigues Ayres. From Ferdinand Denis's "L'Univers. Histoire et Description de Tous les Peuples. Bresil, ... Colombie et Guyanes".
[Ref: 26081]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Soir.
Le Soir. La Dame allant au Bal.
Boucher pinxit. Petit sculp.
a Paris chez Petit ruë St Jacques pres les Matherin, et chez la Veuve Chereau aux deux Pilliers d'Or. Avec Privilege du Roy.
Etching with engraving. 320 x 230mm (12½ x 9"), with large margins. Slight surface soiling.
Night, from a series of Times of Day, with a woman holding a mask.
[Ref: 45050]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Polonais à Milan.
Le Polonais à Milan. Le général Jean Henri Dombrowski donnant lecture de sa proclimation aux Polonais le 20 Janvier 1979 (1.er pluvoise an V) devant les premiers soldats de la légion polonise d'Italie, rennis sur la place du Dôme de Milan.
Elie Tremo del. W.A. Le Petit sc.
[Paris, n.d., c. 1840.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 185 x 270mm, 7¼ x 10½".
A parade of the Polish Legions under Jan Henryk Dabrowski, in front of the Duomo di Milano (Milan Cathedral). After the Third Partition of Poland (1795), many Poles believed that Poland's best chance of reunification lay with the support of Revolutionary France, so fought for France and Napoleon right up until Waterloo. Here they were fighting the Austrians for control of Italy. From a painting in the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it.
[Ref: 21336]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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Eglise de St Stanislas à Malatycze
Eglise de St Stanislas à Malatycze dans le Palatinat de Mstislaw Grand-duché de Litvanie...
Laurent Gucewicz del. sc.
Mangean imp. [Paris, n.d., c. 1848.]
Steel engraving. Sheet 185 x 270mm, 7¼ x 10½".
A view of the Roman Catholique church of St Stanislas, built 1794. From the collection of Leonard Chodzko (1800-71), a Polish historian active in the November Uprising of 1830 and the Great Emigration that followed it. Church of St Stanislas Malatycze, bears similarities with the architecture of St Peter's in Rome. The church was built and consecrated in 1794 by Stanislaw Siestrzencewicz-Bohusz (1731-1826), first archbishop-metropolitain of Mogil'ov, now in the Ukraine.
[Ref: 21330]   £65.00   (£78.00 incl.VAT)
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