Antoine Marcenay de Ghuy

The Passengers - Original Etching by A. M. de Ghuy - 1775

1775

English Title: "Magnificent Arc with the Ercole Tebano’s Simulacrum” Image dimensions: 39.9x54.6 cm. Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cavaliere Pa...

English Title: "The Temple of Neptune” Image dimensions: 38.3x53.2 cm. Very Fine Proof, showing an architectural apparatus for firework built by Paolo Posi in occasion of the Chinea Feast in 1760. Signed on plate lower-right margin. Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture. In Good condition, with a light abrasion higher-left corner and some little foxing in margins. Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p. 137, n. 69 Master of Giovan Battista Piranesi...

Image dimensions: 51x38.4 cm. Beautiful Artist's Proof, representing the apparatus for firework built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th June 1776) by Paolo Posi. ...

English Title: "Noble Pleasant Building" Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework designed and built in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (1776) by Giuseppe Pal...

English Title: "Capitol Festively Decorated" Beautiful Proof, showing the apparatus for firework built by the “Cav. e Arch.” Paolo Posi, drown by “Giuse. Palazzi”, engraved by “Cava. Giusep. Vasi”. This wonderful Etching represents the Capitol festively decorated in occasion of the Feast of S. Peter and Paolo (29th June 1775). Signed on plate lower margin. Original Title with a detailed capture under the picture. In Very Good condition. Ref: G. Sassoli, Apparati architettonici per fuochi d'artificio, 1994, p.155, n. 97. Master of Giovan Battista Piranesi...

Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm. Liber Veritatis - Plate 177 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...

"Rovina della gran Basilica di S. Paolo fueri le mura accaduta" (View of the Ruins of the Great Triumphal Arch of S. Paolo Fuori le Mura) from "Le Antichita Romane" (Ancient Rome), published in Rome in 1823. It depicts the destruction of the Basilica of St. Paul after the fire of 1823. People stand in the road and on the right observing the damage amid debris, which includes many fragments of columns. The etching is presented in a silver-color wood frame with an off-white double mat with a black inner mat. There are a few small spots, but it is otherwise in very good condition. See item # LU117324669722 for another Rossini etching...

This framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi is entitled "Dimostransi nella Tav. presente la Pianta, ed Elevazione del Ponte, oggi detto Quattro Capi egli è antichissimo, e chiamavasi Fabrizio da L. Fabrizio Presid. delle Strade, che lo fabbrico' nel fine della Repubblica. "(The Plan and Elevation of the Bridge, today called Quattro Capi. The architect is very ancient, and was called Fabrizio da L. Fabrizio Presid. delle Strade, who built it at the end of the Republic). This is plate 18 in volume 4 of Piranesi's "Le antichita romane opera di Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano" (Roman antiquities by Giambatista Piranesi Venetian architect). It was published in Rome in 1756-1757. This etching depicts the plan and elevation of the bridge now called the Ponte dei Quattoro Capi or Ponte Cestio (Bridge of the Four Heads), which in antiquity was called the Bridge of Fabricius after L. Fabricius, the Superintendant of the Streets who built it at the end of the Republic, around 62 BC. It was also been known in the Middle Ages as ‘Ponte Giudeo’ (Bridge of the Jews). The bridge crossed from the left bank or northeast side of the Tiber River to Tiber Island...

This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta del Mausoleo d'Elio Adriana ora chiamato Castello S. Angelo nella parte opposta alla Facciata de...

This framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi is entitled "Speco della Giulia" (Aqueduct of the Acqua Giulia), published in Rome in 1758 in Piranesi's "Le antichita ...

This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta degl' Avanzi delle Torri di Belisario Dalla parte che guarda l' Interno della Città, vicino a Porta S. Giovanni, A. Mura Aureliane" (...

"A sua Eccellenza il Signor Henry Hope Cav. Scozzese Amatore delle Belle Arti from "Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, Ed Ornamenti Antichi", (Vases, candelabra, grave stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ancient ornaments) is an etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, published in 1778. It depicts stone caryatids...