La Città di Lodi veduta dalla Valle dell'Adda / Piazza Maggiore di Lodi

Reference: S46191
Author Litografia Pietro BERTOTTI
Year: 1870
Zone: Lodi
Printed: Milan
Measures: 715 x 525 mm
€2,400.00

Reference: S46191
Author Litografia Pietro BERTOTTI
Year: 1870
Zone: Lodi
Printed: Milan
Measures: 715 x 525 mm
€2,400.00

Description

Beautiful and very rare pair of large views of the city of Lodi, printed in Milan by Pietro Bertotti printing house.

La Città di Lodi veduta dalla Valle dell'Adda, drawn by Luigi Cattaneo, Convittore in the Collegio dei Barnabiti in Lodi, bears the date 1865.

Piazza Maggiore in Lodi, drawn by Carlo Vanni Convittore in Collegio S. Francesco in Lodi, bears the date 1870.

Pietro Bertotti (San Nazzaro 1795 - Milan 1848), lithographer printer and print dealer, after working at the Regia Stamperia, opened a lithographic workshop in Milan in 1828 and a print store in the Corsia del Duomo in 1834. He published numerous views of Lombardy and other places in Italy and the world. At his death the business continued with his brothers Giovanni and Francesco and sons, who published these two views.

The lithographs are of absolute rarity and are not in the Bertarelli Collection.

Minimal oxidation, overall in very good condition.

Bibliografia

Leandro Ozzola, La Litografia Italiana dal 1805 al 1870, Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix, pp. 10, 23; P. Arrigoni, cfr. A. Bertarelli, Piante e vedute della Lombardia conservate nella Raccolta delle Stampe e dei Disegni, Milano 1931.

 

Litografia Pietro BERTOTTI (San Nazzaro PV 1795 - Milano 1848)

Pietro Bertotti, lithographer and print merchant, after working at the Regia Stamperia, opened a lithographic workshop in Milan in 1828 and a print shop in Corsia del Duomo in 1834. He publishes numerous views of Lombardy and other locations in Italy and the world. Upon his death the business continued with his brothers Giovanni and Francesco.

Litografia Pietro BERTOTTI (San Nazzaro PV 1795 - Milano 1848)

Pietro Bertotti, lithographer and print merchant, after working at the Regia Stamperia, opened a lithographic workshop in Milan in 1828 and a print shop in Corsia del Duomo in 1834. He publishes numerous views of Lombardy and other locations in Italy and the world. Upon his death the business continued with his brothers Giovanni and Francesco.