Caption
Veduta a Prospetiva della Piaza di St Marco di Venezia, Veuë et Perspective de la Place de St Marc de Venise, St. Mark's Square, Doge's Palace and the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, Views of Rome, print, album page, View of St. Mark's Square, Doge's Palace and the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice. Title in Italian and French below the performance. Print is part of an album., printmaker: Israël Silvestre, Paris, colorer (graphic design artist): Anna Beeck, The Hague, 1631 - 1691, 1693 - 1717, colorer (graphic design artist), paper, colour, etching, tearing, etching hand-colored in pink, green, blue, and yellow, pasted onto album page, around the print a yellow frame with a red border, height 343 mm x width 247 mm, Print is part of a series of 12 prints with views of Rome. The print has been torn along the top edge of the image. The image has been supplemented at the top with a painted sky., square, circus, city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, palace, Venice, Doge's Palace, Biblioteca Marciana, A wide pale sky with soft bluish and pinkish bands and rounded, translucent cloud forms fills the upper area, below which a calm seascape stretches to a distant shoreline with small buildings and masts; in the foreground a busy stone quay and waterfront show boats and gondolas on the water, some with figures aboard, and groups of people walking or standing on the pier; an ornate multi-story building with arched colonnades and decorative roof elements lines the waterfront on the right, and another tall, darker façade frames the far right edge; smoke or cloud puffs rise near the horizon above the clustered buildings, and decorative architectural details and small sculptural elements are visible on the boats and quay edges.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B24_009
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