Italy, PADUA PADOVA TOWN HALL Palazzo Comunale TOWER ~ 1833 Art Print Engraving

Description: PADUA Artist: C. Stanfield A.R.A ____________ Engraver: W. Finden Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE 19th CENTURY ANTIQUE PRINTS LIKE THIS ONE!! PRINT DATE: This engraving was printed in 1833; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 6 inches by 8 inches including white borders, actual scene is 3 1/2 inches by 5 1/4 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. We take a variety of payment options. Full payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! DESCRIPTION OF PRINT SUBJECT: Lord Byron thus slightly mentions his passage through Padua, in a letter from Venice, shortly after his arrival in this city—“I saw Verona and Vicenza on my way here—Padua too.” And again, when it was revisited by him on his journey to Ravenna, in one of his letters to Mr. Hoppner, dated from Padua, on that occasion, he says: “A journey in an Italian June is a conscription ; and if I was not the most constant of men, I should now be swimming from the Lido, instead of smoking in the dust of Padua.” The glories of Padua have passed away with the importance of its University; but the men whose names now belong to the world, who obtained for this city, by their association with it, the appellation of the Learned, “Padua la Dotta,” have given to it an undying me mory. Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso, all studied here. Here Galileo taught; and some honoured names of our own countrymen have added to its reputation; for Chaucer, Harvey (the discoverer of the circulation of the blood), and, almost in our own days, Oliver Goldsmith, were for a time students. But Padua has had its di. tinguished natives also. One of the earliest was Livy, the Roman historian; and among the last was Belzoni, the celebrated Egyptian traveller, who has consigned to his native city some of the results of his researches on the banks of the Nile. There is a pride of place, as well as of family, which every inhabitant tries to sustain. Padua boasts of very high antiquity: its citizens claim as its founder the Trojan prince An tenor; and to confirm this they shew his tomb The claim of Padua to the honour of Livy's birth is indis putable; yet his countrymen seek to confirm it by shewing the house in which he lived But these de mands upon credulity are too easy to be refused by those who make no difficulty in implicitly believing the monstrous absurdities related as the miracles of their patron—Saint Anthony. There is in Padua a public building of extraordinary magnitude—the town-hall, or il Salone. The great room is three hundred feet long and one hundred broad; it contains also the public offices and the prison. It is recorded that it was begun in 1172, and completed in 1306. How one hundred and forty years could be wasted on such a work, it is difficult to imagine; yet numerous examples occur in Italy of centuries having been required for the erection of some of their public structures. Though there is a gloomy and melancholy air about Padua, there are many ob jects of interest to detain the traveller in their public buildings and churches. Here the Italian fathers of the revival of painting in Italy have left their finest pic tures, especially Cimabue, Giotto, and Mantegna; and the extraordinary merit of some of these works will un deceive those who have had thrust upon their attention, by picture-dealers, the hideous old gaunt virgins, with friezes of little dangling angels, like imps—the works of the Greek painters of the eleventh and twelfth cen turies—as those of Cimabue and Giotto. With all its dulness, Padua boasts of one of the finest promenades, attached to a city, in Europe—the Prato della Valle. It is a large open space with a canal, laid out and planted ; and around these are placed, on pedestals, the statues of those men who have been most distin guished in the history of Padua. Many structures exist which prove its participation in the struggles between the Guelphs and the Ghibelines, when houses were fortified and towers were raised for defence against the indignant populace, who were roused to revenge acts of atrocity, which would appear to us to be improbable, if the crimes of such a wretch as Eccelino da Romano had not been recorded, and descended to our times as matter of history. Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. “ENGRAVINGS”, the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or “engravings” were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper. A RARE FIND! AND GREAT DECORATION FOR YOUR OFFICE OR DEN WALL.

Price: 24.99 USD

Location: New Providence, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-01-26T19:43:40.000Z

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