Antonio Senape - Cento disegni per un Grand Tour del 1829 - 2001

Exceptional collection of 100 original views of the 1800s drawn in pencil and ink by Antonio Mustard for a Grand Tour in 1829. Edited by Leonardo di Mauro. Album (25x33 cm), pp. 32+100 of tipped-in plates. Full canvas binding in an elegant illustrated slipcase. It consists of one hundred drawings, of which 16 on double page, of suggestive views of cities and villages: over 50 of splendid views of Naples and its surroundings (including the islands, the Campi Flegrei, the Sorrento Peninsula and the Amalfi coast) up to Gaeta and the six views of Sicily: Messina, Palermo and Catania; about twenty dedicated to the magnificence of Rome, the others depict beautiful views of central and northern Italy: Terracina, Civitavecchia, Tivoli, Perugia, Lago Trasimeno, Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Bologna, Ancona, Ferrara, S. Calenda, Isola Bella, L. Maggiore, L. di Como, Brescia, Milan, Venice, Turin, Genoa, Villa Francha, Nice from the road of Genoa, Arona, Isola Borromea from Baveno. Limited edition of only 960 numbered copies.