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Lot 97

DEROY (ISIDORE LAURENT)
[Italie], Paris, Jeannin, [c.1850], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,200

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DEROY (ISIDORE LAURENT)

[Italie], volume containing 24 lithographed views of Rome (18), Tivoli (4) and Subiaco (2) by and after Leroy for Lemercier and Formentin, Paris, from a larger series (numbered 25-48 and headed 'Italie'), foxing and light browning affecting some plates, publisher's half roan, lettered in gilt 'Vues de Rome' on upper cover, spine worn, oblong folio (305 x 445mm.), Paris, Jeannin, [c.1850], sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

Footnotes

Rare series of lithographs by Deroy, lithographer, watercolourist and landscape painter, many of whose prints were published in album form.

Provenance: Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt (1885-1971, noted collector, gallerist, philanthropist and patron of the arts), ink stamp on front paste-down ("Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Roma sparita"). The Countess's famous collection of Roman prints, books, drawings and paintings came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on a bygone era of the city. When she died in 1971, she left the drawings and paintings to the Museo di Roma, while her collection of prints and published works were sold and dispersed.

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