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[ALBUM OF VIEWS]
Views in Europe.
A beautiful album of views of Europe, mostly of Italy, collected undoubtedly by a traveller during the middle of the 19th century.
- Plates
- 30
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Ref
- 1502
Large oblong 4to album of 38 engravings pasted on white leaves, beautifully coloured by hand, and highlighted in 'gum arabica. Bound in brown quarter-calf, with brown cloth boards, a red morocco label with title in gilt to upper board, inscribed: "These 'Views' with many others which are lost, were bought from Europe in the year 1852 by J. Wickham". Flat spine. Decorated with small gilt fillets. Nineteenth-century binding. Coloured plates in order: 1. Venezia, Ponte di Laguna. 2. Venezia, S. Marco. 3. Venezia, Il Molo. 4. Venezia, Piazza S. Marco. 5. Venezia, Canal Grande. Palazzo Ca'Doro. 6. Venezia, Palazzo Ca Foscari Canal Grande. 7. Venezia, Canal Grande. 8. Venezia, Ponte dei Sospiri. 9. [Torino] Veduta della Chiesa di S. Giovanni (Cattedrale). 10. Torino, Veduta di Piazza Castello. 11. Torino, Veduta del Ponte sulla Dora (Riparia.) 12. Italie, Turin. La Superga. 13. Al Duomo di Pisa. 14. Interno del Duomo di Pisa. 15. Veduta interna del Campo Santo di Pisa. 16. Schweizerhof a Luzerne. 17. Vue du Mettenberg & du mont Eiger dans la vallee de Grindelwald. 18. Luzerne vers le Righi. 19. A Brientz. Canton de Berne. 20-21.Genève (2 panoramas.) 22. Sommo Pontefice in Sedia Gestatoria. 23. Pamerier Segreto con il Flabello. 24. Cardinale in Mantelletta. 25. Generale degl' Osservanti. 26. Soldato Svizzero. 27. [not captioned] a male peasant in watercolour. 28. [not captioned] female in traditional costume in watercolour. 29. As above (browned.) 30. As above. There are also eight uncoloured views of Heidelberg.
