Antique Master Print-GONDOLA-HEALTH OFFIC-GRANARIES-VENICE-Zucchi-Valeriani-1720

Medium: Engraving on hand-laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 50.5 x 42 cm (19.88 x 16.54 inch). Image size: 47 x 34 cm. (18.5 x 13.39 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VENICE, DOMENICO LOVISA, SANITA, PUBLIC GRANARIES, 18TH CENTURY PRINT, ARCHITECTURE, GONDOLAS, VENETIAN CANAL SCENE, ITALIAN VEDUTA, HISTORIC URBAN VIEWS | EXPO-LARGE-MPRINTS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Domenico Lovisa in Rialto, Venice; part of “Il Gran Teatro delle Pitture e Prospettive di Venezia” (1720).

Reference: Cicogna 4541, Succi 230.

Biography engraver: Andrea Zucchi (1679, Venice – 1740, Dresden) was an Italian painter and engraver.

Biography artist: Giuseppe Valeriani (before 1708-1762) was an Italian-born Russian artist who primarily painted murals and stage scenery. Giuseppe Valeriani was born in Rome. Several sources give his birth year as 1708, but this is incorrect and he must have been born before this year. Valeriani died in St. Petersburg on April 18, 1762.