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[Guide - Italy]. Paul de Musset's famous Voyage pittoresque en Italie, Partie septentrionale in the 1855 Paris edition with 23 plates outside text including 17 city views and color plates depicting popular scenes, and the 1865 Partie méridionale with 23 plates outside text including 18 city views and 5 color plates depicting popular scenes, within cloth bindings. (2)

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[Guide - Italy]. Paul de Musset's famous Voyage pittoresque en Italie, Partie septentrionale in the 1855 Paris edition with 23 plates outside text including 17 city views and color plates depicting popular scenes, and the 1865 Partie méridionale with 23 plates outside text including 18 city views and 5 color plates depicting popular scenes, within cloth bindings. (2)

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Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Paris: Clousier, Jacques-Gabrie, 1781-1786. Collection of plates from this famous Grand Tour masterpiece. Millard, French 148: 'the completed work is one of the most beautiful that a private person has ever produced, and it is unparalleled among the sumptuous voyage pittoresque publications'. 95 (of 272) plates, some within passepartout, various sizes, (browning mainly to margins). (1) "

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HERGE Book set including Beaubourg exhibition catalog, Le timbre voyage avec Tintin, and 5 Moon stamps

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Louis François Cassas (1756 Azay-le-Ferron - 1827 Versailles): Architectural fragments at the Macellum of Pozzuoli, 1784, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: At the lower part signed in the printing plate: "L. F. Cassas 1784". Lower middle inscribed in the printing plate: "Vue pres de Pouzzoles.". Date: 1784 Description: Following the example of many famous contemporaries, the French draughtsman Louis François Cassas also embarked on an educational journey to Italy from 1779. For around four years, he travelled to the classic destinations of an artistic and scholarly Grand Tour, which he was one of the first to extend beyond Italy. During this time, he captured the picturesque landscapes, the remarkable architecture and the lives of the people in these places in numerous drawings and sketches. In Naples, he met a group of like-minded artists who were commissioned by Jean-Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, to produce drawings to illustrate the multi-volume work Voyage pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. Cassas was then also asked to travel to Sicily and produce sketches that were to be engraved for the Abbé's work. In the Voyage pittoresque, however, only eight of Cassas' drawings are ultimately printed, although he must have submitted a significantly higher number. The present sheet, which shows signs of a provisional, as yet unfinished work without correct labelling, particularly in the lower section, could have been created in this context, but was ultimately rejected. It is also known that Cassas gave some of his drawings to the Piranesi Chalcography in Paris around 1801, where similar depictions with romantic views of ruins were offered for sale engraved and coloured. In both cases, the present sheet can probably be regarded as a trial proof in the process of publishing Cassas' impressions of his first journey to Italy. Keywords: Italy, Grand Tour, Antiquity, Reception of Antiquity, Sarcophagus, Relief, Naples, Pozzuoli, Memento Mori, French, 18th century, Classicism, Landscape, Italy, Size: Paper: 24,2 cm x 19,8 cm (9,5 x 7,8 in), additional specification: Paper: 29.6 x 23.4 cm

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Emile BOU (1908-1989) "Terrace of a restaurant on the shores of Lake Cômo (Torno)". Oil on panel. Signed lower left, countersigned, dated June 26, 1953, titled and dedicated on the back: "A monsieur Glize Henri en souvenir d'un voyage en Italie". 22 x 31.5 cm

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