A Group of Eight Fruit Botanical Engravings

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VARIOUS ARTISTS (Active 17th-18th Centuries)
A Group of Eight Fruit Botanical Engravings
eight engravings with hand-coloring, circa 1650 and circa 1725, on laid and wove papers, all with margins, light- and time staining, surface soiling showing mostly in the margins and on the reverse, some plates with tears, creases and losses at the margin edges, Palazzo del N.H. Barberigo in Este with soft diagonal creasing across the upper right corner, minor moisture staining and an area of restoration in the center of the right margin, Plate 85 - Yellow Fruit laid down on board, with losses and tears in the margins (some restored), one extending through the center right of the image (touched-in), other minor defects
various sizes (8)

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THOMAS BOWLES (1712-1753), AFTER B. LANGLEY (1696-1751), Plate LXVII - [Pear Studies]; JOSEPH DE MONTALEGRE (ACTIVE 17TH CENTURY), Pag: 176.b. Palazzo del N.H. Barberigo in Este; Plate 61 - Malum Citreum Vulgare (2); Plate 303 - Limon Sponginus Liguriae Verrucosus; Plate 37 - Alia Lima Citrata Oblonga Et Mostrosa Sive Scabiosa; Plate 339 - Lima Eadem Rotunda; Plate 85 - [Yellow Fruit]

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