Null 12 optical views. 18th c Hand-coloured etchings, c. 32,5 x 43,5 cm, laid pa…

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12 optical views. 18th c Hand-coloured etchings, c. 32,5 x 43,5 cm, laid paper, various conditions. Mostly hinged on edges, under passe-partout. 10 views of Rome (Ponte Sant'Angelo, Palazzo Pamphili, Monte Cavallo, an amphitheatre, Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Piazza San Pietro, etc.), a view of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and a view of the Palazzo Villamena in Genoa.

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12 optical views. 18th c Hand-coloured etchings, c. 32,5 x 43,5 cm, laid paper, various conditions. Mostly hinged on edges, under passe-partout. 10 views of Rome (Ponte Sant'Angelo, Palazzo Pamphili, Monte Cavallo, an amphitheatre, Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Piazza San Pietro, etc.), a view of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and a view of the Palazzo Villamena in Genoa.

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DUPLESSI-BERTAUX (J.). [Cris de Paris] Recueil de cent sujets de divers genres composés et gravés à l'eau-forte. A Sett of one hundred original etchings drawn and engraved. Paris, Chez les Éditeurs, rue Boucher n° I, 1814. Small oblong in-4, brown half-chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt edges (late 19th c. binding) Spine very rubbed. 3 ff. (faux-titre, bilingual title, notice), pp.(5)-14 (bilingual), the artist's portrait in an oval medallion, a large vignette on the frontispiece depicting an engraver's workshop and 8 picturesque suites on urban and military life in the early 19th century engraved in etching: - Workers of different classes: 12 pieces (stonemasons, masons, locksmith installing the Tuileries terrace gate, etc.). - Soldiers of various arms: 12 pieces (Empress dragons, imperial guard grenadier, sapper, etc.). - Trades: 12 pieces (cooper, roofer, wheelwright, scraper, etc.) - Cries of the Parisian itinerant merchants: 12 pieces (umbrella merchants, mattress carders, pleasure merchants). - Suite variée: 12 pieces (strolling comedians' parade, village wedding, gendarmes, watering hole, duels, etc.) - Comedians and actresses in famous roles from the repertoire: 12 plays (M. Grand-Ménil as L'Avare, Mlle Mézeray as Rosine, Mr de Vigny as Tartuffe, Mr Thénard as Sganarelle, etc.). - Urban shows: 10 pieces (le jeu de volan, l'épileptique, l'arracheur de dents, l'escamoteur, etc.). - Beggars: 12 pieces - 3 military scenes - 2 medallions struck on a single plate. The various suites that make up the collection had appeared shortly before in separate issues. The 1814 date and the bilingual French/English introductory notes clearly indicate the work's commercial intent. These little notebooks are one of Duplessi-Bertaux's finest productions. Minor foxing in a few places, generally good condition inside. (Béraldi VI, 73; Cohen, 338; Colas, 914; Bénézit III, 416.) Attached is a suite of 12 marine views engraved by Israël HENRIET after Stefano della BELLA, published by Daumont, Paris (19th c. print).

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