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Lot 20

BRAZIL - RIO DE JANEIRO
[SALATHÉ (FRÉDÉRIC) and JOHANN JACOB STEINMANN. Panoramic view of Rio de Janiero], [?Basel, c.1834-1840]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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BRAZIL - RIO DE JANEIRO

[SALATHÉ (FRÉDÉRIC) and JOHANN JACOB STEINMANN. Panoramic view of Rio de Janiero], finely hand-coloured aquatint view after Guillaume Frédéric Ronmy and Félix Taunay, heightened with gum arabic, with engraved key in French below and wide grey wash outer border, faint staining discernible in sky area, slight browning to key area, on 2 sheets joined, image 200 x 1020mm., [?Basel, c.1834-1840]

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Rare panorama of Rio taken from the Morro do Castello, with bright fresh colours. 'Uno de los ejemplares más importantes del género en la iconografía de Rio de Janeiro' (Eliza Linhares Borges and Víctor Mínguez, La fabricación visual del mundo atlántico 1808-1940, 2010). Ronmy's oil painting was one of the first panoramas to be displayed in a rotunda in Europe, causing a great sensation in Paris. Steinmann had introduced lithography to Brazil in 1825 and Salathé engraved the views for his Souvenirs de Rio de Janeiro before the former returned to Basel in 1834 to carry on publishing his works.

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