Teste e Figure XII

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Antonio Maria Zanetti (1680-1767)
Teste e Figure XII
thirteen etchings, on tissue-thin laid Japon, depicting heads of women, children and men as well as mythological subjects, with title page, very good impressions, with wide margins, loose, all stamped in the upper margin with numbers from 661 to 673, a few very minor stains and printer's creases, the second sheet with a small paper loss at the lower right corner, generally in very good condition
P. 140 x 100 mm. (and smaller), S. 223 x 155 mm. (average)

Provenance

Anonymous (L. 2338a)

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Lot Essay

The Venetian writer and artist Count Antonio Maria Zanetti is best known for his chiaroscuro woodcuts (cf. Bartsch XII; Le Blanc II, p. 259). This apparently unrecorded series of small etchings, dedicated to the London physician and patron of the arts Dr. Richard Mead (1673-1754), appears to have been a private entreprise, printed only in a very small edition.

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