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Web Auction 99 - WORKS ON PAPER: OLD MASTER, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PRINTS, 19TH AND 20TH DRAWINGS, ANTIQUE MAPS.
By Bertolami Fine Art
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Temple dedicated to the Peace Etching, 1773. Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the ...
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Temple dedicated to the Peace Etching, 1773. Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cavalier Paolo Posi”, engraved by “Cavalier Giuseppe Vasi”. The subject is the machine representing a Temple dedicated to the Peace, shown and burned in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th June 1773). Signed on plate lower margin. Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture. In Very Good condition, except a usual worn paper on margins and some little and light stains. Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p.152, n 93. Giuseppe Vasi (Corleone, 1710 - Rome, 1782) Master of Giambattista Piranesi, Vasi is the artist of the architectural Views above all of Rome, as evidenced by Delle magnificenze di Roma antica e moderna (1747-61), a collection of 200 plates, 10 books.
42 x 56.2 (foglio), 38.3 x 51.3 (image)
