FOSSATI, Giorgio and Domenico (1705-1785)

Lot 197
13.07.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 8 190
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Lot 197 | FOSSATI, Giorgio and Domenico (1705-1785)
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£ 2 000 – 3 000
FOSSATI, Giorgio and Domenico (1705-1785)

Currus triumphales ad adventum clarissimorum Moschoviae principum Pauli Petrovitz et Mariae Theodorownae conjugis regali orandum spectaculo in Divi Marci venetiarum foro die 22 Januarii anno MDCCLXXXI. Venezia: si vende alla Casa di Fossati in Castelforte a S. Rocco, [1782].

Two suites bound into one folio, illustrating and commemorating the triumphal entry into Venice in 1782 of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich (1754-1801), future Tsar Paul I, and his wife Maria Theodorovna (1759-1828). The first suite, consisting of five engraved plates, captures the extraordinary structures and decorations created under the direction of the celebrated architect and artist, Domenico Fossati. The second suite, engraved by Antonio Barati (1724-1787) after Carlo Grandi and C. Moretti, illustrates the amphitheater in which Fossati's marvelous structures would have been viewed. Bobins IV, 1492.



Folio (346 x 253mm). Pictorial contemporary hand-coloured double-page engraved title, 9 double-page engraved plates, with a suite of 5 contemporary hand-coloured plates by Domenico Fossati, highlighted in gilt and silver, [with] a suite of 4 (of 6?) plain engravings by Antonio Baratti after Carlo Grandi and C. Moretti (some light spotting and finger-soiling, slight stain to the top corners of each leaf, residual paint and markings to interleaved blanks, mark across sky of first plate, second suite). Contemporary Italian paper over mottled boards (extremities rubbed with loss of some paper and spine is weak); modern morocco-backed clamshell box with gilt lettering on the spine.





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