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GIUSEPPE VASI
Two etchings of Rome.
All’Altrezza Reale Eminentissima di errigo Bendetto Maria Vescovo di Frascati . . . . Basilica
Vaticana
, 1774 *
L’Interno della Basilica Vaticana . . .
, 1775. Both approximately 705x970
mm; 27
3
/
4
x38
1
/
4
inches, small margins. Good impressions of these monumental etchings.
Sicilian bornVasi (1710-1782) worked in Rome from 1746 to 1761 and created a series
of
Vedute
or views of the city’s great architecture which predated those by Piranesi (though
Vasi’s views are more straight-forward and less grandiose than Piranesi’s). For a short time
in the 1740s, Piranesi apprenticed withVasi in Rome.
[1,500/2,500]
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GIUSEPPE VASI
Raccolta delle piu belle Vedute Antiche, e Moderne di Roma
.
Group of 10 etchings, 1786. Each approximately 207x325 mm; 8
1
/
4
x12
3
/
4
inches, full margins.
Includes views of St. Peter’s, the Palazzo Odescalchi, Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Borghese,
S. Maria in Cosmedin and others.Very good impressions.
[1,000/1,500]
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JEAN-FRANÇOIS JANINET (after Boucher)
La Toilette de Vénus
.
Color etching and engraving, 1783. 375x294 mm; 14
3
/
4
x11
5
/
8
inches (image).Third state
(of 4), before the removal of the uppermost cupid.Trimmed on or inside the plate mark
but with the entire image preserved. A very good impression of this scarce, important
print with fresh colors. Portalis/Béraldi 2; Jean-Richard 1225; Carlson/Ittmann 91.
[2,500/3,500]
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