Lot Essay
Constable records that many of these views are either direct copies or adapted versions of the Visentini-Canaletto Views of Venice.
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MARCO SEBASTIANO GIAMPICCOLI (18th Century)
Raccolta delle Principali prospettive della Città di Venezia, after Canaletto and others
title page and twenty-eight engravings, after 1782, on laid paper, very good impressions, with wide margins, central vertical folds, the title page with an ink inscription, the plates inscribed in the bottom margin in pencil, three with extensive foulbiting, occasional pale staining, bound, green paper covers (defects)
all P. 9 3/16 x 12 1/2in. (232 x 317mm.)album
Raccolta delle Principali prospettive della Città di Venezia, after Canaletto and others
title page and twenty-eight engravings, after 1782, on laid paper, very good impressions, with wide margins, central vertical folds, the title page with an ink inscription, the plates inscribed in the bottom margin in pencil, three with extensive foulbiting, occasional pale staining, bound, green paper covers (defects)
all P. 9 3/16 x 12 1/2in. (232 x 317mm.)album