A late eighteenth, early nineteenth century album containing forty six fine watercolours

by Venice, Francesco Novelli

$38,500 · Offered by Hordern House

Probably Venice: variously dated from 1795 to 1825. Oblong small quarto album, 185 x 275mm, containing forty-six watercolours of various sizes and shapes ranging from delicate circular vignettes to larger scenes of urban and theatrical life, elegantly bound in nineteenth-century ochre morocco with ornate gilt decoration. Fine Italian commedia dell'arte watercolours

• Binding: Leather

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