Venice Italy San Giorgio Maggiore Old Print Mallet 1684
Title: S’George De Venice Antique old town map of Venice, copperplate engraved with hand coloring.
San Giorgio Maggiore is a 16th century Benedictine church on the island of the same name in Venice, northern Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio and built between 1566 and 1610. The church is a basilica in the classical renaissance style and its brilliant white marble gleams above the blue water of the lagoon opposite the Piazzetta and forms the focal point of the view from every part of the Riva degli Schiavoni.
Publisher: Alain Manesson Mallet.
Published Paris between 1683 – 1719 in Description de L'Univers in 5 volumes, and Les Travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la Guerre (1684) in 3 volumes.
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Size : Sheet app.: 11.5 x 17.5 cm. 4.5 x 6.75 inches. Size image app.: 9 x 14 cm. 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Condition; Fine print in overall good condition.
