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Prints and Drawings
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Michele Marieschi, Italian, 1710–1743
Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus
1741
Etchings with engraving
Album: 48.3 × 36.5 × 2.5 cm (19 × 14 3/8 × 1 in.)
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
2012.52.1.1-.22
Geography:
Made in Italy
Status:
By appointment
Culture:
Italian
Period:
17th century
Classification:
Works on Paper - Prints
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,” https://artgallery.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Pub_Bull_acquisitions_2012.pdf (accessed December 21, 2012).
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
