Grosvenor Prints

Contadina Di Bolognese. 10 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A rustic interior with a peasent woman of Bologna, seated, spinning yarn using a drop spindle. A bird cage hangs from the ceiling above. Plate 10 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38721] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Citadina Di Frascatana. 23 [Parallel text in French.]
J.B. Greuze del. F.A Moitte Sculp.
[n.d., c.1768.]
Engraving. Platemark: 300 x 230mm (12 x 9"). Very large margins.
A woman of Frascati, Rome, holding a fan and rosery beads, within a large columned interior. Plate 23 from the series 'Divers habillements suivant le costume d'Italie', a set of twenty-five plates representing figures in the costumes of different Italian cities, engraved by various member of the Moitte family. This is one of several plates in the series engraved from designs by Jean-Baptise Greuze (1725-1805), one of the most important French artists of the 18th century.
[Ref: 38722] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Jakob Hannibal Hohenems.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
Jakob Hannibal Hohenems, nephew of Giovanni Angelo Medici (Pope Pius IV). He fought as a mercenary for Emperor Charles V in Germany and Italy, and for Phillip II of Spain in Flanders. He spent two years in Antwerp as a garrison commander, during which time he amassed a vast art collection. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32669] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Veduta del Porto dell'Isola d'Ischia. Preso dal Quadro originale che fa parte della Collezione dei Porti delle due Sicilie ordinata da S.M. il Rè. N.4.
Ph Hackert pinx: Gio: de Grado inc. G. Hackert direx.
[n.d. c.1820.]
Engraving, 440 x 590mm (17¼ x 23¼"). Trimmed to plate, stained to edges, slightly scuffed.
A fine view of the port of the Isle of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples, Italy.
[Ref: 59604] £360.00

The Castle of Ischia. From the original Picture in the possession of George Knott Esq.r.
Painted by C. Stanfield R.A. Engraved by E. Goodall. Printed by McQueen.
Art Union of London 1844.
Engraving. 430 x 630mm (17 x 24¾"), with large margins with blind stamp of Britannia. A few filled in worm holes, a tear and spotting in margins.
A view of the Aragonese Castle, on an island off Ischia but now linked by a stone causeway. The scene appears to be Napoleonic: in 1799 the island joined the Parthenopean Republic, backed by the French, but the rebellion was put down by the Royal Navy; in 1806 the island was captured by the French, who withstood a British counter-attack, holding it until 1814. The original painting is in the Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, in the city of the artist's birth.
[Ref: 26776] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Isola Bella, Lac Maggiore.] Prospect der Insul Borromoea in Lago Maggiore [...]
J.B. F. v. E. del
C.P.S.C.M. [Leipzig, 1725]
Engraving with very large margins, platemark 300 x 430mm (11¾ x 17"). Text in French and German; foxing to margins only.
Isola Bella, one of the five 'Borromean Islands' in the Italian part of Lago Maggiore, and one of three owned by the Borromeo family, who developed it in the 16th century. Edith Wharton dedicated a chapter to it in 'Italian Villas and their Gardens' (1904) and the family continue to spend time there during the winter months. Plate from Austrian architect Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach's 'Entwurf einer historischen Architektur' ('Outline of Historical Architecture', first published 1721) , the first comparative architecture of all periods and nations.
[Ref: 33414] £490.00

Italian Girls. preparing for a Festa. Dedicated by Permission to the Rt Honble Lord Charles Townshend by His Lordships most obedient and Obliged Servants Colnaghi Son & Co.
F. Williams pinxt. D. Lucas sculp.
London, Robert Simpson, 20, St. Paul's Terrace, Camden Town [n.d., c.1840].
Mezzotint, sheet 400 x 310mm. 15¾ x 12¼". Trimmed to plate. Slightly tatty and chipped extremities.
One girl dresses another's hair. A tambourine to right.
[Ref: 9674] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Lago Maggiore near Baveno Sep.r 7th 1853
Pencil sketch, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View near Baveno, on the west shore of Lago Maggiore in Piedmont, Italy, looking towards Laveno on the east shore. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41099] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Baveno on Lago Maggiore Sep.r 7th 1853
Pencil sketch, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View of Baveno, on the west shore of Lago Maggiore in Piedmont, Italy. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41100] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Lago Maggiore Looking down from the Inn Window Baveno. Sept. 6th 1853
Pencil sketch, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View from Baveno, on the west shore of Lago Maggiore in Piedmont, Italy, looking out towards the Isola dei Pescatori and Isola Bella. These are two of the Borromean Islands (Isole Borromee), a group of three islands and two islets named after the Borromeo family, which once owned all five. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41101] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Lago di Como or Lecco looking towards Lecco from near Belaggio Sept 3d 1853
Pencil sketch with watercolour, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy. The view is taken from Bellaggio, famous for its location at the point where the lake separates into Como (west) and Lecco (east) arms. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41105] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Lago D'Orta looking up from below the Monte Sacro aug.t 31st 1853
Pencil sketch, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View of Lago d'Orta in the Piedmont region of northern Italy, from near the Roman Catholic complex Sacro Monte di Orta on the lake's eastern shore. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41104] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

From the Col de Colina de Varallo Sept.r 1st 1853
Pencil sketch with painted accents, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View from Varallo Sesia in the Piedmont region of Italy, looking towards Monte Rosa, the second highest mountain in the Alps, on the right. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41106] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

Looking up Lago di Como from near Varenna Sept 3. 1853
Pencil sketch with chalk accents, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View from near the municipality of Varenna on the east shore of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41103] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

Lago di Como looking down from Varenna Sept. 3 1853
Pencil sketch with watercolour, sheet 180 x 265mm (7 x 10½").
View from the municipality of Varenna on the east shore of Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy. One of a collection of sketches made by a traveller around the lakes of Switzerland and northern Italy in 1853.
[Ref: 41102] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled landscape.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Sepia ink drawing with pink wash border. Border 315 x 470mm (12½ x 18½"), watermarked 'J. Honig & Zoonen'.
A town above a lake.
[Ref: 40324] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[Untitled scene of a town and lake..]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Sepia ink and wash drawing. Border 315 x 470mm (12½ x 18½"), watermarked 'C. & I. Honig'.
A walled building, with trees and cow.
[Ref: 40325] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Jeanetta. (Costume d'Ischia)
Numa pinxt. Imp. par Lemercier. Regnier et Bettannier lith.
Paris publie par H. Gache, editeur, rue de la Victoire, 58. London, 30 Decr. published by J. Bouvier, 70 St. Martin's Lane [n.d., c.1845].
Lithograph in fine contemporary colour by hand, image 250 x 195mm. 9¾ x 7¾". Margins slightly trimmed.
A woman in traditional southern Italian dress posed with her hand on a ceramic vessel in a landscape; a shrine in the background. From a series of national costume plates.
[Ref: 23938] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Italy.] Ober=Italiaen. Taf. I. Der Dom in Mailand.
[Emil Wendt.][n.d.,c.,1850]
[Leipzig, Berlag von Dürffling und Frante.]
Engraving, platemark 270 x 315mm (10½ x 12½") very large margins.
A collection of vignettes of views of Northern Italy arranged around a central view of the cathedral in Milan, other views include 'Isola Bella in Laggo-Maggiore' and 'Ein Mönch mit einen-Reliquie'. A plate from Emil Wendt's 'Bilderatlas der Länderkunde...'
[Ref: 46038] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Italian Landscape.] 29.
P. Bril Inventor. Nieulant fecit.
A Bon enfant excud. Avec Privilege du Roy. [n.d. c.1605.]
Etching, plate 240 x 315mm (9½ x 12½"). Trimmed to plate on three sides and glued on album sheet. Slightly stained on inscription area, one wormhole.
Italian landscape with people resting in the foreground and two figures walking down a hill in the background. This is Plate 29 from a series of thirty-six plates showing Italian landscapes after Paul Bril by Willem van Nieulandt.
See Hollstein: 76-111.
[Ref: 58997] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

L'Italie. A.9.
Huquier ex.
[A Paris chez Huquier rue des Mathurins près celle de Sorbonne. C.P.R.] [n.d., c.1760.]
Fine and rare etching, pt 18th century watermark. Plate 190 x 140mm (7½ x 5½"), with large margins. Slightly foxed, nick on bottom left corner.
A rococo design representing Italy, engraved and published by Gabriel Huquier (1695-1772).
[Ref: 59307] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

Leghorn.
Engraved by J. Luffman for Mr Serres, Little Sea Torch. Published June 1801.
Engraving with fine hand colour. Printed area 130 x 165mm (5¼ x 6½").
A chart of the environs of Livorno in Italy, published while England was at war with Revolutionary France. From Serres's scarce marine pilot, 'The Little Sea Torch', an acknowledged English edition of Bougard's 'Le Petit Flambeau de la Mer', although extensively revised by Serres.
Abbey Life: 344.
[Ref: 13672] £140.00

Map of Italy and Switzerland by T. Ettling.
[London: Illustrated London News, 1860.]
Zincograph with hand colour, folded as issued. 680 x 480mm, 26¾ x 19". Repaired tears, some spotting.
A map published as a supplement to the Illustrated London News, as the Kingdom of Sardinia formally annexed the former Austrian-controlled regions of Parma, Modena, Tuscany and the 'Papal Legations' of Ferrara, Bologna, and Romagna. This was done with the support of Britain and France, which took Savoy & Nice as a reward (much to the disgust of the Italian national hero Garibaldi, a native of Nice). This was an important event in Italian Unification.
[Ref: 26387] £160.00

Deuxième Vue d'Italie. Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur Damery Lieutenant aux Gardes Françoises
Peint par Patel Gravé par Daulle Graveur du Roi et de l'Academie Impériale d'Ausbourg
A Paris chez Daullé Graveur du Roi rue du Platre St. Jacques à coté du Collége de Cornouaille [c.1750]
Engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark 320 x 410mm (12½ x 16"), with large margins.
Picturesque Italian landscape, probably after Pierre Patel (1648-1707) and with much in common with similar subjects by other French landscape painters such as Gaspar Dughet and Joseph Vernet.
[Ref: 40166] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Lake of Como.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache, titled in ink at top. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Tear taped, some scuffing, stain along right edge.
A well-executed and colourful scene.
[Ref: 62405] £380.00

[Lake Como and Villa d'Este.]
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache. Sheet 155 x 205mm (6 x 8"). Trimmed to image.
A close copy of the view of Lake Como by G. Castellini for Francesco Bernucca's 'Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como', c.1818. It is painted on the back of a part lithographic portrait.
[Ref: 62406] £450.00

Lake of Como.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Fine gouache, titled in ink at top. Sheet 150 x 190mm (6 x 7½"). Stains at top and right edges.
A well-executed and colourful scene.
[Ref: 62407] £480.00

Lugano. Vue prise du lieu appelé le Paradis pries Fontana. [/] Veduta presa dal Paradiso presso Fontana.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par J. Jacottet. Fig par Bayot.
Imp par Lemercier a Paris. Paris. Bulla et Delarue, 10, rue JJ Rousseau. et. Bulla édituer, 18 rue Tiquetonne. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A picturesque view of Lake Lugano on the border between south east Switzerland and Italy, with the surrounding city in the distance. The lake, named after the city of Lugano, is situated between Lake Como and Lake Maggiore. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33332] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Lac Majeur. Statue de st. Charles Borromiée. [/] Statua di San Carlo Borromeo.
Dessiné d'apres nature par Ph. Benoist. Lith par J. Jacottet. Fig par Bayot.
Imp par Lemercier, a Pais. Paris_ Bulla et Delarue, rue JJ Rousseau. a. Bulla éditeur, 18 rue Tiquetonne. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A fine view of the enormous statue of San Carlone, also known as Colossus of San Carlo Borromeo, erected between 1614 and 1698, near Arona, Italy. It is built on a hill overlooking Lake Maggiore, which can be seen in the background, near the ancestral castle of the Borromeo family. A series of chapels was planned documenting the life of the saint, (1538-1584) who was the cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. Only three were eventually built. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33330] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Isola Bella.
T.E. Chapman, Lithogr.
Printed by T. Bayly. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph, sheet 110 x 180mm. 4¼ x 7".
Isola Bella is one of the Borromean Islands of Lago Maggiore in northern Italy.
Not in Abbey.
[Ref: 11110] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Lake Maggiore.
[n.d., c.1840.]
Gouache, titled in ink at top, Stamp of C. Rastrelli Geneva verso. Sheet 165 x 250mm (6½ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image.
A well-executed and colourful scene of the island palaces, with a steamer on the lake.
[Ref: 62408] £480.00

Luigi Lamanni.
F.M. Francia fecit 1710.
[Padova, Guiseppi Comino, 1718.]
Engraving. 215 x 150mm (8½ x 6") Small margins, mounted in album paper.
Portrait of Luigi Alamanni (1495-1556), Florentine poet and statesman, credited with introducing the epigram into Italian poetry, the frontispiece of 'La Coltivazone di Luigi Alemanii'.
[Ref: 41329] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

[Cosimo Andrea Lazzerini's Family.]
[Jean Coraboeuf? after J.A.D. Ingres]
Etching on india-laid paper, 520 x 410mm. 20½ x 16¼". Chalcographie du Louvre blindstamp.
Etching after Ingres' drawing of the physician and professor of medicine Cosimo Andrea Lazzerini and his family, which is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The original inscription 'Ingres à Monsieur Lazzerini/ florence 1822' is replicated lower right. This may be the etching by Jean Coraboeuf exhibited at the Salon of 1906.
Jon Whiteley, 'Ingres', p.44
[Ref: 17809] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Lerici] Ericus portus.
HVC [monogram]. Henri Cliven. inven.
Philipp. Gall. excud [n.d., c.1580.]
Engraving. 175 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with large margins.
A view of the harbour of Lerici with the castle on a cliff at left, a caravan approaching at right and galleys and galleons in the sea. After Hendrick van Cleve III (1525-c.1589). An example of the first state, before a plate number.
H: i of ii.
[Ref: 57453] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

The New Gallery of the Vatican Library at Rome. With the Cornishes Ornamented with Etrusian Vases. La Galarie Nouvelle de la Bibliotheque Vatincane a Rome... 9.
B. Vasi delin. Bowles Sculp.
London Printed for R. Wilkinson 58 Cornhill, & Bowles & Carver, 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. [n.d. c.1800]
Framed engraving with hand colouring , plate 275 x 425mm (10¾ x 16¾"). Frame size 480 x 630mm (19 x 24¾"). Unexamined out of frame. A few small time spots near the plate mark.
An interior view of the gallery at the Vatican library in Rome. After Giuseppe Vasi (1710–1782) however attributed incorrectly within the print.
[Ref: 61277] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Entrée des Francais dans Livourne. le 11 Messidor An 4.
Dessiné par Carle Vernet. Gravé à l’eau forte par Duplessi-Bertaux. Terminé par Dambrun.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. Plate 297 x 411mm (11¾ x 16"). Trimmed to plate along lower edge, scuffing to upper image right; foxing to margin areas.
English warships sailing in the vicinity of Livorno stopped at the docks in the years 1792-1796. These ships and their occupants were involved in the English response to the French Revolutionary Wars: Livorno was then used as a supply harbour for the British Mediterranean fleet until the French entered the city during the summer 1796. All English merchant families were forced to flee the town and were able to return only after 1797. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
RMG: PAG8938.
[Ref: 28303] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

IIIeme. Vue de Livourne. Dediee a Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur l'Archiduc Pierre Leopold... Par Son tres humble et tres Soumis Serviteur Ja. Ph. Hackert.
Peint par Ja. Ph. Hackert. 1778. Grave a l'eau forte par B.A. Dunker et termine par G. Eichler.
a Naples chez George Hackert Graveur de S.M. le Roi de Deux Siciles. Avec Privilege. Le Tableau Original se trouve dans le Cabinet de S.A.I. Mgr. le Grand-Duc de Russie.
Etching and engraving, 350 x 480mm (13¾ x 19"). Tatty margins; some soiling.
Figures in oriental dress on a harbour quay with some unloaded cargo. Sailing boats and fortifications in the background. The scene is set in Livorno, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. After Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737 - 1807), painter and etcher. Born in Prenzlau north of Berlin, he came to Italy in 1768, settling first in Rome and (from 1787) Naples. From a series of four views 'Quatre Vues de Livourne'.
BM: 1886,1124.232.
[Ref: 9627] £490.00

Veduta di Livorno. View of Leghorn.
Gustavo Mellini dis. 1826. Antonio Verico inc.
A Livorno presso Gio. Batta. Guerrazzi, Via Ferdinanda, No. 90.
Rare engraving. Plate: 500 x 390mm (19¾ x 15¼"), with very large margins.
A view of the Tuscan port city Livorno from the sea showing the lighthouse, harbour and the hills beyond.
[Ref: 40971] £460.00

[Quatre Vues de Livourne.] I.ere Vüe de Livourne. Dediée a Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur l'Archiduc Pierre Leopold... Par Son très humble et très Soumis Serviteur Ja. Ph. Hackert. [&] II.eme Vue de Livourne... [&] III.eme Vue de Livourne... [&] IV.eme Vue de Livourne....
Peint par Ja. Ph. Hackert. 1778. Grave a l'eau forte par B.A. Dunker et termine par G. Eichler.
A Rome chez George Hackert Graveur Place d'Espagne.
Set of four etchings with engraving. 345 x 480mm (13½ x 19") very large margins.
A rare set of matching four views of Livorno, an important free port in Tuscany, known to the British as 'Leghorn', showing it as a bustling port filled with ships. The second plate illustrates the famous 'Monument of the Four Moors', decorated with four bronze slaves. The third has portrait of an Ottoman merchant with women and wares on the quayside. The fourth has a storm and shipwreck, with people being pulled from the sea onto the shore. After Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737 - 1807), painter and etcher. Born in Prenzlau north of Berlin, he came to Italy in 1768, settling first in Rome and (from 1787) Naples.
[Ref: 53754] £1,400.00 (£1680.00 incl.VAT) view all images for this item

IIeme. Vue de Livourne. Dediee a Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur l'Archiduc Pierre Leopold... Par Son tres humble et tres Soumis Serviteur Ja. Ph. Hackert.
Peint par Ja. Ph. Hackert. 1778. Grave a l'eau forte par B.A. Dunker et termine par G. Eichler.
A Rome chez George Hackert Graveur Place d'Espagne. Le Tableau Original se trouve dans le Cabinet de S.A.J. Mgr. le Grand-Duc de Russie.
Etching and engraving, sheet 340 x 470mm (13½ x 18½"). Trimmed to plate.
Figures on a harbour quay gathering around a sculpture of a conqueror; well to right foreground. Sailing ships to left and fortifications in the background. The scene is set in Livorno, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. From a series of four views 'Quatre Vues de Livourne'. After Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737 - 1807), painter and etcher. Born in Prenzlau north of Berlin, he came to Italy in 1768, settling first in Rome and (from 1787) Naples.
BM: 1886,1124.231.
[Ref: 12628] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Map of Livorno.] Piano Attuale Della Città e Porto di Livorno Con suoi Subborghi ed Adjacenze 1825.
G. Batocchi inc.
Fine & rare engraving. Sheet: 640 x 480mm, (25 x 19"); very large margins. Creasing in edges.
A detailed plan of the city of the Tuscan port city Livorno including outlying areas including a key identifying major houses and churches.
[Ref: 40954] £380.00

Vue aux Environs de Narni en Lombardie Dediée a son altesse serenissime Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange & de Nassau, Stadhouder héréditaire, Capitaine general et Amiral des Provinces unies des Pais-bas, &a &a &a. et tirée de son Cabinet par ses très-humbles et très-obéissans Serviteurs Pierre Yver & Pierre Fouquet le Jeune.
Peint par Vernet. Gravé par S. Fokke.
A Amsterdam chez Pierre Yver et Pierre Fouquet le Jeune.
Etching, 290 x 330mm. 11½ x 13". Trimmed to plate.
Dramatic view of Narni, Italy. Etched by the Amsterdam printmaker Simon Fokke (1712-84) after Joseph Vernet.
[Ref: 16275] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Pavie. Facade de la Chartreause. [/] Pavia. Facciata della Certosa.
Desineé d'ap. nat. et lith. par Ph. Benoist.
Imp Lemercier. Paris. Paris, Bulla Editeur, Rue Tiquetonne, 18. [n.d., c.1850].
Tinted lithograph. Sheet size: 290 x 380mm (11½ x15").
A highly detailed view of the Certosa di Pavia, a monastery and complex in Lombardy, northern Italy, situated near a small town of the same name in the Province of Pavia. Certosa is the Italian name for a house of the cloistered monastic order of Carthusians founded by St. Bruno in 1044 at Grande Chartreuse. Though the Carthusians in their early centuries were known for their seclusion and asceticism and the plainness of their architecture, the Certosa is renowned for the exuberance of its architecture, in both the Gothic and Renaissance styles, and for its collection of artworks which are particularly representative of the region. After Philipe Benoist (1813-1880), with titles in French and Italian.
[Ref: 33323] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Lorette, een Stedeken in Italie, vermaert door Bedevaerten. Loretta, Italiae oppidulum, votis peregrinantium celebre.
Pet: Schenk Amsteld C.P.
[n.d. c.1720.]
Etching. Plate 215 x 266mm. 8½ x 10½". Large margins.
A view of Loreto, the hilltown of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche. The prominent building is the Basilica della Santa Casa, a popular Catholic pilgrimage site.
[Ref: 23405] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Faciata Dauanti il Pallazo. Prospetiua Del Giardin che é sopra il Pallazo Del' Ill.mo Sig: Con. Mafei in Verona.
[Johann Christoph Volkamer.]
[1708.]
Rare engraving. Sheet: 330 x 230mm, (13 x 9"). Some damage on left edge, central crease as issued.
A view of the garden of the Mafei Palazzo in Verona, showing the many citrus trees in ornate pots. An illustration from 'Nürnbergische Hesperides...,' 1708 a study of citrus fruit by German merchant and botanist Johann Christoph Volkamer (1644-1720).
[Ref: 40946] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Lago Maggiore.] Lac Majeur.
Dis. et gravée par A. Sala Laveno.
[Laveno c.1840.]
Aquatint. Sheet 185 x 250mm (7¼ x 9¾"). Trimmed to image on three sides. Slight repaired tear in top right.
View of Lago Maggiore in the southern Alps, traversing the Swiss-Italian border, from above Hermitage of Santa Caterina del Sasso, looking towards the Borromean islands.
[Ref: 39772] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

[Jacobo Malatesta.]
[Innsbruck: D. Baur, 1603.]
Engraving with large margins. 425 x 295mm (16¾ x 7¾").
General Jacobo Malatesta, the commander of the Venetian forces on Cyprus in the 1560s, prior to the loss of the island to the Ottomans in 1571.. He seems to have been a member of the Malatesta family that ruled Rimini until expelled in 1500 by Cesare Borgia. He is shown in armour within an alcove with superb architectural details, a strap-work cartouche for a title left blank. On the reverse is a German-text biography relating to another portrait, within an ornate woodcut frame. Published in Jacob Schrenck von Notzing's 'Der aller Durchleuchtigisten und Grossmächtigen Kayser, Durchleuchtigisten unnd Großmächtigen Königen'.
[Ref: 32670] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

Rome. Les Capitales De L'Europe. Promenades Pittoresques. Rome. Vue de Capitole.
Par M. Charles Malo.
Paris, Marcilly Fils Ainé, Rue S.-Jacques, No.21. Imprimerie de A. Firmin Didot, Rue Jacob, No.24. No.53 R. de la Paroisse, Boullenger, Md. Papetier a Versailles.[n.d. c.1829.]
Small 12mo, 146 x 95mm (5¾ x 3¾"), yellow board cover embossed and with title printed in black; pp. 36, with hand-coloured aquatint. Some foxing.
Charles Malo (1790-1871) produced a series of books on the capital cities of Europe, in French, and recorded details of daily life in the cities, historical information and architectural details of churches and significant public buildings. The frontispiece view is the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façade of the Palazzo Senatorio and the cordonata.
Vicaire V: 481. Gumuchian: 3918 & 3919.
[Ref: 17541] £480.00 view all images for this item

S.M. la Reine de Naples.
Metzmacher del et sc. 1861
Imprimé & Publié par Goupil & C.ie Paris, London, La-Haye Berlin_Verlag Goupil & C.o New York_Published by M. Knoedler
Lithograph, 290 x 225mm. 11½ x 9". Large margins; stains in margins
Maria Sophia of Bavaria (1841-1925), the last Queen consort of Naples and Sicily (1859-61).
[Ref: 11196] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Massaniello haranguing the Populace of Naples.
[n.d. c.1810.]
Engraving. 95 x 134mm (3¾ x 5¼").
Massaniello seen here on a platform, attired in his fisherman's garb, administering justice from a wooden scaffolding outside his house. Tommaso Aniello, known as Massaniello (1622-1647), the Italian fisherman, who became leader of the revolt against the rule of Habsburg Spain in Naples in 1647. Massaniello succeeded, and on 13 July 1674, the Duke of Acros signed a convention where rebels were pardoned, more oppressive taxes removed, and the citizens granted certain rights.
[Ref: 34700] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

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