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LOSE (FRIEDRICH AND CAROLINE) Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como, Milan, Francesco Bernucca, 1818 image 1
LOSE (FRIEDRICH AND CAROLINE) Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como, Milan, Francesco Bernucca, 1818 image 2
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LOSE (FRIEDRICH AND CAROLINE)
Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como, Milan, Francesco Bernucca, 1818

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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LOSE (FRIEDRICH AND CAROLINE)

Viaggio pittorico e storico ai tre laghi Maggiore, di Lugano, e Como, second edition, partially engraved title-page, 50 aquatint plates (of 60?), many by Caroline Lose after Friedrich Lose, others by or after G. Castellini, G.B. Bosio, G. Zancon, E. Adam and Fumagalli, all printed in bistre or grisaille and followed by a leaf of letterpress description (erratically numbered between I and LX), some light foxing in margins, contemporary green half morocco, decorative gilt spine, worn with some loss to covers [cf. Brunet V 1168 and Graesse VII 295, 1815 edition], oblong 4to (240 x 318mm.), Milan, Francesco Bernucca, 1818

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VERY RARE SERIES OF FINE AQUATINT VIEWS OF THE ITALIAN LAKES. This attractive example of a 'viaggio pittorico' or 'viaggio pittoresco' was one of three series on Northern Italy produced in Milan by two German artists, Friedrich and Caroline Lose (the others being Viaggio pittorico e storico al Monte Spluga and Viaggio pittorico nei monti di Brianza).

The number of plates varies from copy to copy; Brunet and Graesse list only the original 1815 edition with 50 plates, whilst the four or five copies offered at auction in the post war period (all dated 1818, as here) have had between 35 and 49 plates.

Provenance: C.E. Pollen, ownership signature on front free endpaper.

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