Description
This optical print shows a view of the House of merchants, now townhall in Milan, Italy. We see the buildings and people walking on the square in front.
Made by after an anonymous artist.
Medium: Engraving / optical print on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 41.7 x 31 cm (16.42 x 12.2 inch). Image size: 40.5 x 30 cm. (15.94 x 11.81 inch).
Condition: fair, given age. Smudges. Paper loss in three corners. Creases. Brownish. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
HOUSE OF MERCHANTS-TOWNHALL-BUILDING-MILAN-ITALY-WALKING PEOPLE-SQUARE | RB-1507
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published by Georg Balthasar Probst ca 1760.
Biography engraver: Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801) was an German engraver and publisher from Augsburg. Together with his father and other outstanding engravers, he participated in the publication of the important series of about one meter wide panoramas of the most important cities in Europe. .
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