Francesco Tironi (c. 1745-1797)

The island of San Michele, Venice

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Francesco Tironi (c. 1745-1797)
The island of San Michele, Venice

numbered '116' (recto) and '60' and with inscriptions 'Isola di S. Michele di Murano al'isola dei Monaci Comoldolesi' and 'Samuel de ... 1834.' (verso)
red chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash , watermark crowned cartouche with three stars
283 x 418 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 21 March 1974, lot 44.

Literature

J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection VI: Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings, New York, 1986, under no. 178, note 8.

Lot Essay

Thirty drawings by Tironi are known: among them, six are in the Albertina, two at Washington, six in the Victoria and Albert Museum and two in the Pierpont Morgan Library. The present sheet is related to the series of 24 engravings by Antonio Sandi of views of the islands in the Venetian Lagoon, J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, loc. cit.

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