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BRUUN-NEERGAARD Tonnes-Christian and Thomas-Charles NAUDET. A picturesque and historical journey through Northern Italy by T.-C. Bruun-Neergaard. The drawings by Naudet; the engravings by Debucourt. Volume one [only published]. Paris, l'auteur (de l'imprimerie Firmin-Didot), 1820; in-folio contemporary green half-basane, smooth spine. First edition of this beautiful work (the only volume published, printed in 200 copies reserved for subscribers), the first illustrated work devoted to this region. Bruun-Neergaard (1776-1824) was a Danish traveller and art historian. After a trip to Switzerland, he looked for a landscape painter to accompany him to other regions and found T.-Charles Naudet (1778-1810), a former student of Hubert Robert. Naudet's illustration includes 48 AQUATINTE ENGRAVED PLATES BY DEBUCOURT, OF WHICH TWENTY ARE IN COLOUR OR IN TINT, LANDSCAPES AND MONUMENTS, from the lakes, Bergamo, Milan to Venice.
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BRUUN-NEERGAARD Tonnes-Christian and Thomas-Charles NAUDET. A picturesque and historical journey through Northern Italy by T.-C. Bruun-Neergaard. The drawings by Naudet; the engravings by Debucourt. Volume one [only published]. Paris, l'auteur (de l'imprimerie Firmin-Didot), 1820; in-folio contemporary green half-basane, smooth spine. First edition of this beautiful work (the only volume published, printed in 200 copies reserved for subscribers), the first illustrated work devoted to this region. Bruun-Neergaard (1776-1824) was a Danish traveller and art historian. After a trip to Switzerland, he looked for a landscape painter to accompany him to other regions and found T.-Charles Naudet (1778-1810), a former student of Hubert Robert. Naudet's illustration includes 48 AQUATINTE ENGRAVED PLATES BY DEBUCOURT, OF WHICH TWENTY ARE IN COLOUR OR IN TINT, LANDSCAPES AND MONUMENTS, from the lakes, Bergamo, Milan to Venice.
