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Object Type
Museum number: 1972,U.312.1-20
Description: "Collection de vingt Magnifiques gravures representant des vues de Villes, Cathedrales, Temples, Ruines et Paysages les plus remarquables de la Sicile ces gravures sont dignes d'etre encadrees" (Paris: Pommeret & Moreau) including 20 views of Sicily: Vue Prise du Theatre de Taormine; Vue generale de Palerme prise des hauteurs de Santa Maria di Gesu; Vue de l'interieur du port de Palerme; Vue du Couvent des Capucins a Taormine; Vue des ruines des temples de Jupiter Olympien..; Vue de Chateau de Sant-Alessio; Vue de la Grotte des Chevres; Fragments des ruines d'un temple de Selinunte; Vue d'Agrigente..; Chapelle Souterraine dans la Cathedrale de Messine; Vue des murs d'Agrigente,..; Vue laterale du temple de la Concorde..; Vue des ruines du temple de Jupiter Olympien..; Vue du tombeau d'Archimede, a Syracuse; Vue du cloitre des benedectins a Monreale; Vue de la Cathedrale de Palerme; Vue du temple de Segeste; Vue de la Cathedrale et de la place del duomo, Messine; Vue de l'Etna e du golfe de Milazzo; Vue de l'emplacement d'une partie de l'ancienne Agrigente. In original paper portfolio, the title lettered on the front cover. Etching and aquatint
Producer name: Published by: Pommeret & Moreau; After: Samuel Biermann; Print made by: Franz Hegi; After: Jean Daniel Huber (?); After: Jean Charles Joseph Rémond (?); After: G P Rommy; After: Gabriel Lory le fils; Print made by: Thales Fielding; After: Alphonse Perin (?); After: Jules Coignet; Print made by: Sigismond Himely; After: Jean Lubin Vauzelle; Print made by: Richard Reeve; After: Antoine Félix Boisselier; Print made by: C Bennet; After: W Robson; Print made by: Friedrich Salathé; After: Charles Robert Cockerell (?); After: Louis François Cassas; Print made by: Thomas Sutherland; After: Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste, Comte de Forbin; After: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding
School/style: British; French; Swiss
Production date: 1780 - 1830
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 455 millimetres (Approx. sheet size); Height: 430 millimetres; Width: 620 millimetres (Approx. sheet size); Width: 560 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust.
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Sicily; Topographic representation of: Agrigento (town); Topographic representation of: Palermo (city); Topographic representation of: Siracusa; Topographic representation of: Taormina; Topographic representation of: Messina; Topographic representation of: Monreale
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1753-1972
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1972,U.312.1-20

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