La Campania nelle immagini del Settecento
Naples: Società Editrice Napoletana, 1981. Portfolio containing introductory text in Italian and 64 loose facsimile plates printed in bluish black ink. Sheets measure approximately 19 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (500 x 350 mm), full margins. A twentieth-century luxury facsimile portfolio featuring celebrated views, architectural renderings, and topographical plates of the Campania region. The plates offer exceptionally crisp reproductions of 18th-century Grand Tour iconography, capturing historic vistas, archaeological excavations, and cultural landscapes of Naples, Vesuvius, Phlegraean Fields, Capri, and the wider Campanian countryside. Paper portfolio case has some minor handling wear and surface soiling. Contents within are in very good condition.
The Abbé de Saint-Non (Jean-Claude Richard, 1727–1791) was a French connoisseur, artist, and patron. Between 1781 and 1786, he published a massive, five-volume masterwork titled Voyage pittoresque ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile. It was one of the most lavishly illustrated productions of the 18th century, capturing the height of the "Grand Tour" fascination with classical antiquity and the romantic landscapes of Southern Italy. Saint-Non collaborated with top-tier artists of the era, most notably Hubert Robert, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Claude-Louis Châtelet to sketch the ruins, vistas, and daily life of Campania, which were then meticulously engraved by master French printmakers.
Condition: Very good.
Item number: 2176
Price: $200.00
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