£4,200
SENAPE (Antonio, 1788-1850): Italian Grand Tour Sketchbook: an album of 49 fine sketches of Naples and the Italian Coast in black and blue inks, comprising 41 single page (approx 30 x 21cm), 7 double-page and one large folding panorama of Naples Bay in 6 sections (approx. 212 x 23cm): with letter dated June 2nd 1886 tipped onto FFE verso, stating 'this beautiful collection of unrivaled pen etchings of Naples and the coast of Italy, were purchased by me from Antonio Senape the artist who executed them. They formed his original sketches from which he made copies and sold to foreigners visiting Naples, but the disturbed state of Rome during the invasion of Garibaldi in 1849 having emptied Naples of foreign visitors, poor Senape had no further sale for these really inimitable works of art, and he was reduced to sell these original sketches which I purchased for a comparatively ridiculous price and now add to my property at Sydney Lodge bequeathed to John...': contained in brass-bound black morocco album of period, the album approx 40 x 28cm, the brass fixture to one top edge loose and front endpaper joint broken, oblong 4to. (1)
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