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Folio (471 x 368 mm). 26 engraved plates finely coloured by a contemporary hand in watercolour and gouache, heightened with gum arabic, each plate mounted on blue paper with contemporary hand-coloured borders and each with printed caption on the mount (occasional spotting, finger-soiling, marking to hand-painted blue paper). Contemporary calf-backed brown cloth boards, gilt decoration to boards, flat spine lettered and tooled in gilt, (extremities lightly rubbed) original printed buff wrappers bound in.
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Arrigoni, Milano nelle vecchie stampe (le vedute) n° 174 (with 26 plates) ; Bobins IV, 1469.
A beautiful series of one of the rarest and most beautiful series of views devoted to Milan, dedicated to The Archduke Ranieri Viceroy of the Lombardo-Veneto kingdom, with two additional plates.
The plates illustrate Milan’s most celebrated buildings and monuments: Teatro alla Scala, Arch of Peace, Arena, Villa Reale, Duomo, S. Ambrogio, S. Lorenzo etc… brought to life with the incorporation of people, details and activities of everyday animated street life in Milan at the begining of the 19th century.
Ladislao Rupp was an Austrian architect, draughtsman, architectural engraver and mosaicist. He was a pupil of Giacomo Raffaelli and spent most of his life in Milan. The plates were etched by Falkeisen, Durelli, Bramati and others after drawings mostly by Rupp himself.
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