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Michiel Marieschi, artist
Italian, 1710 - 1743
Campo San Rocco, plate 16 from the series Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus, State II, circa 1768
Etching and engraving
31.7 x 47.6 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1988.1.255

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publisher, Joseph Wagner

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Artist Biography: Painter, architect and etcher. Born Venice 1 December 1710; died there 18 January 1743. Spent early life in Dresden, wherehe worked as a scene painter and his work was highly esteemed. Later, he returned to Venice and made an album of etchings and painted numerous views of the city. See: Mauroner, Fabio. Incisioni del pittero. Bergamo: 1945. See also: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford, 1981~~Reference: Fabio Mauroner. "Catalogue of the Etchings of Michiel Marieschi". Print Collector's Quarterly. Vol. 27, no. 2: 1940. pp. 179 ff.~ ~

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