Vedute dei principali Monumenti di Venezia, by Léfevre and others, E. Testolini, Venice
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After Giovanni-Battista Cecchini (1804-1879), Giovanni Pividor (d. 1872), and Tommaso Viola (b. 1804)
Vedute dei principali Monumenti di Venezia, by Léfevre and others, E. Testolini, Venice
lithographs printed in black with a brown or grey tintstone, with extensive handcolouring in watercolour with gum arabic, early to mid nineteenth century, on wove paper, title and set of twelve, each plate with the publisher's blindstamp, with margins, plate twelve with a waterstain with associated craquelure in the pigment of the sky, one or two plates with smaller areas of craquelure or abrasion in the pigment, some plates with pale, unobtrusive foxing, otherwise generally in good condition, bound in paper-covered boards with lithographed title and design on front, some staining, other defects(album)
overall S. 350 x 478mm.
Vedute dei principali Monumenti di Venezia, by Léfevre and others, E. Testolini, Venice
lithographs printed in black with a brown or grey tintstone, with extensive handcolouring in watercolour with gum arabic, early to mid nineteenth century, on wove paper, title and set of twelve, each plate with the publisher's blindstamp, with margins, plate twelve with a waterstain with associated craquelure in the pigment of the sky, one or two plates with smaller areas of craquelure or abrasion in the pigment, some plates with pale, unobtrusive foxing, otherwise generally in good condition, bound in paper-covered boards with lithographed title and design on front, some staining, other defects(album)
overall S. 350 x 478mm.