Lot #41: Antique, Hand-Coloured Panoramic Engraving of Venice by Georg Balthasar Probst.

18th-century panoramic engraving of Venice, titled "Venetia", after a drawing by Friedrich Bernhard Werner. A fine and impressive large-scale panoramic view of Venice by Friedrich Bernhard Werner. The city is depicted from the harbor, showing ships, gondolas, and islands in the foreground with the shoreline and skyline beyond. The campanile (bell tower) of the Piazza San Marco rises slightly right of center; pedestrians stroll nearby in the piazza. In the skies above, the Venetian coat of arms with the Lion of St. Mark and a golden ribbon bearing the title “Venice” float before scattered clouds. Eighty-six important sites and buildings are identified in the numbered key. This view was made from on site drawings — Werner wrote in his autobiography of a trip to Venice in 1730 to make views for Augsburg publishers. Frame: 35" x 16.5". Pickup category timeslot {A}