Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Artist: Michele Marieschi (Italian, 1710–1743)

1741

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Etchings with engraving

Dimensions

album: 19 × 14 3/8 × 1 in. (48.3 × 36.5 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2012.52.1.1-.22

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

17th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

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Provenance
The album has an eighteenth-century English rococo engraved ex-libris of George Colebrooke of Middlesex, Esq. (possibly Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet, 1729-1809); and the ex-libris of Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pasha, Egyptian senator and bibliophile, whose celebrated library was sold at auction in Cairo in December 1950.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 21, 2012), 72, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

cityscapes (representations)

Subject

boating boats buildings canals cities crests men people statues towers (single built works) water

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