Shelfmark
Gl.1.11
Author
Title
Vedute dei principali monumenti di Venezia. Disegnate e litografate da G.B. Cecchini, G. Pividor e T.Viola.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Venezia : presso E[ugenio] Testolini Editore, [1850?]
Physical description
[13] leaves of plates ; col. ill. (lithogr.) ; 31 x 43 cm.
Note
Oblong folio album.
Note
Hand-coloured lithographed title page, incorporating a view of Piazza San Marco, and 13 further hand-coloured lithographed plates heightened with gum arabic and printed by Léfevre after Cecchini, Pividor and Viola -- edited from Jonkers' catalogue.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front flyleaf.
Binding
19th/20th-century burgundy morocco over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt fillets an inch from the spine and diagonal to the outer corners; front board includes gilt titling "Venezia". Spine flat with same gilt titling. Endpapers of translucent cloth and undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Includes black & white photographs of Venice on frnt and rear pastedown (gondola in front of Rialto and a statue of Garibaldi)
Subject
Architecture Italy Venice.
Subject
Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject
Venice (Italy) In art.
Added entry--name
Pividor, Giovanni, 1816 - 1872 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Viola, Tommaso, approximately 1810- - ? illustrator.
Added entry--name
Lefèvre lithographer.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
Italy Venice.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B51461