Londinum - Londinum Urbs Praecipua Regni Angliae
| Reference: | S46680 |
| Author | Giuseppe REMONDINI |
| Year: | 1780 ca. |
| Zone: | London |
| Printed: | Bassano del Grappa |
| Measures: | 505 x 400 mm |
€1,800.00
| Reference: | S46680 |
| Author | Giuseppe REMONDINI |
| Year: | 1780 ca. |
| Zone: | London |
| Printed: | Bassano del Grappa |
| Measures: | 505 x 400 mm |
€1,800.00
Description
Title at top in an ornate cartouche; at sides two heraldic coats of arms. This attractive view depicts London from the southern perspective, centered on London Bridge, and encompasses the city from Westminster to the Tower of London. Below the map is a legend in 10 keys-references identifying the most important landmarks. The most important is St. Paul's Cathedral, which is depicted in a somewhat stylized form because the great church was then in the process of being entirely rebuilt according to Sir Christopher Wren's grand Baroque design, a process that would not be completed until 1723. The original medieval cathedral had been destroyed in the "Great Fire" of 1666. Also in the legend are Whitehall Palace, the important parish churches of St. Lawrence and St. Dunstan, the Bishop of Winchester's Palace, and others. The Thames River is enlivened by the appearance of numerous ships. These large-scale views, depicting London as it is being rebuilt after the "Great Fire," are rare and are a fascinating, historically important record of the city's development during a critical period.
Very rare perspective view of the city engraved by Francesco Ambrosi (1751-1834) for the Remondini printing house, under the direction of Giuseppe Remondini (Bassano 1754-1811), who published it in Bassano del Grappa around 1780.
The view, carved following the cartographic model introduced by the Frenchman Pierre Aveline (1656-1722), is engraved following the leesy and "popular" graphic style that distinguishes the works of the Remondini typography, for the carving of which a "school of carving" had been created. It belongs to a series of views of the world's most important cities.
Under Giuseppe's leadership the Remondini print shop greatly increased interest in cartography. In addition to this important series of views engraved by Federico Ambrosi, Giuseppe purchased the plates and rights to publish of the maps produced by Paolo Santini (Venice 1729 - Belluno 1793). Santini was a Catholic priest at the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, a cartographer, engraver and publisher in Venice, where, in 1776, he published the Atlas Universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes. Also based on Santini's maps, Giuseppe Remondini printed in 1801 the Atlas Géographique, dressé sur les meilleures Cartes de ces derniers tems, à l'usage des Ecoles, et de toute la Jeunesse des deux Sexes, a small atlas of 60 plates that resumes in format, title and figured frontispiece a similar atlas made by Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni (1736-1814) in 1762.
The Remondinis were a family of printers who operated in Bassano del Grappa from the mid-17th to mid-19th centuries, founded by Giovanni Antonio Remondini (Padua in 1634 - Bassano 1711), around 1657, who was succeeded by his son Giuseppe (Bassano 1672 - ivi circa 1750) and his descendants. Giuseppe gave a decisive development to the enterprise, taking ownership, or at least control, of several paper factories. An extraordinary variety of products began to emerge from the Bassano workshops, whose iconographic imagery depended heavily on fashions and their evolutions: fans, board games of all kinds made even in different languages, playing cards, optical views of cities used in new world shows, prints prepared to be glued to furniture called "a lacca povera" or on other objects, such as boxes and snuff boxes, sheets with figures to be cut out with groups of images such as nativity scenes, toy soldiers, crafts, business cards, wallpaper, all materials punctually recorded in the very rich catalogs that from 1729 began to be regularly published and that constitute one of the main sources for the study of the Remondini's production. Giuseppe also oversaw the establishment of a workshop entrusted to the care of Giuliano Giampiccoli and then Antonio Baratti for the practical training of the engravers needed by the firm, improperly referred to as a "school of intaglio." He also implanted a printing house in Venice, and here his son Giovan Battista (Bassano 1713 - Castello Tesino 1776) called the best engravers of the time to collaborate. With Giovan Battista's son Giuseppe (Bassano 1754 - ivi 1811) and his brother Antonio Bartolomeo, intaglio printing reached an important dimension; production increased to a planetary level.
Etching, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, minimal oxidation, otherwise in very good condition.
Bibliografia
A. Bertarelli, La Remondiniana di Bassano Veneto, in “Emporium”, LXVIII (1928), pp. 358-369; M. Infelise, I Remondini di Bassano. Stampa e industria nel Veneto del Settecento, Bassano del Grappa 1990; A.W.A. Boschloo, The prints of the Remondinis: an attempt to reconstruct an eighteenth-century world of pictures, Amsterdam 1998; L. Carnelos, I libri da risma. Catalogo delle edizioni R. a larga diffusione (1650-1850), Milano 2008; A. Milano, Selling prints for the R.’: Italian pedlars from the Tesino and Natisone Valleys travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century, in Not dead things the dissemination of popular print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820, Amsterdam 2013, pp 75-96.
Giuseppe REMONDINI (1745 - 1811)
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The Remondinis were a family of printers who operated in Bassano del Grappa from the mid-17th to mid-19th centuries. Giovanni Antonio Remondini was born in Padua in 1634. In 1657, in his early twenties, he took up residence in Bassano's main square. He opened a store selling cloth, wools, silks and iron tools. Later, he added woodcuts of saints and popular subjects, which peasants bought to protect their homes, to his wares. Remondini developed his own print shop, purchasing an old press, from which originated one of the most important intaglio prints in Europe. To the brightly colored prints were added games, such as the goose ride or paper soldiers, and story booklets to satisfy the tastes of the petty people. In 1711, upon the founder's death, the estate was divided among the heirs, and the printing house fell to his son Giuseppe (Bassano 1672 - circa 1750), and his descendants. Giuseppe imprinted a marked development on the enterprise, taking ownership, or at least control, of several paper mills.
An extraordinary variety of products began to emerge from the Bassano workshops, whose iconographic imagery depended heavily on fashions and their evolutions: fans, board games of all kinds made even in different languages, playing cards, optical views of cities used in new world shows, prints prepared to be glued to furniture called "a lacca povera" or on other objects, such as boxes and snuff boxes, sheets with figures to be cut out with groups of images such as nativity scenes, toy soldiers, crafts, business cards, wallpaper, all materials punctually recorded in the very rich catalogs that from 1729 began to be regularly published and that constitute one of the main sources for the study of the Remondini's production (Remondini, 1990, pp. 77-81; Carnelos, 2008, pp. 37-39). Giuseppe also oversaw the establishment of a workshop entrusted to the care of Giuliano Giampiccoli and then Antonio Baratti for the practical training of the engravers needed by the firm, improperly referred to as a "school of intaglio." He also implanted a printing house in Venice, and here his son Giovan Battista (Bassano 1713 - Castello Tesino 1776) called the best engravers of the time to collaborate. With Giovan Battista's son Giuseppe (Bassano 1754 - ivi 1811) and his brother Antonio Bartolomeo, the intaglio reached an important dimension; production increased to a planetary level. The old network of door-to-door salesmen was replaced by an efficient network of distributors on their own, organized by geographical areas. The Tesini covered Europe from Germany to the Nordic countries, then pushed westward to the Americas; the Schiavoni, entrusted with the entire east of the world, reached as far as the Pacific Ocean. With these two major distribution centers, the printing house's commercial network was able to reach four continents.
Under the direction of Giuseppe's son Francesco Girolamo (1773-1820) it was, however, shaken by legal disputes and political events; the decline began in the first half of the 19th century, after the Napoleonic invasions. At the turn of the century the Remondini printing works had 18 presses for letterpress and woodcut impressions, 24 for copperplate engravings, equipment for printing special papers and wallpapers, 4 paper mills and a foundry for lead typefaces, employing more than 1,000 workers. By 1840 production was still substantial, but unsold goods were already piling up. In 1848 the collapse began; the stores were closed, and all the material sold (1859-60), and in 1861 the company closed its doors.
Bibliografia
A. Bertarelli, La Remondiniana di Bassano Veneto, in “Emporium”, LXVIII (1928), pp. 358-369; M. Infelise, I Remondini di Bassano. Stampa e industria nel Veneto del Settecento, Bassano del Grappa 1990; A.W.A. Boschloo, The prints of the Remondinis: an attempt to reconstruct an eighteenth-century world of pictures, Amsterdam 1998; L. Carnelos, I libri da risma. Catalogo delle edizioni R. a larga diffusione (1650-1850), Milano 2008; A. Milano, Selling prints for the R.’: Italian pedlars from the Tesino and Natisone Valleys travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century, in Not dead things the dissemination of popular print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820, Amsterdam 2013, pp 75-96.
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Giuseppe REMONDINI (1745 - 1811)
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The Remondinis were a family of printers who operated in Bassano del Grappa from the mid-17th to mid-19th centuries. Giovanni Antonio Remondini was born in Padua in 1634. In 1657, in his early twenties, he took up residence in Bassano's main square. He opened a store selling cloth, wools, silks and iron tools. Later, he added woodcuts of saints and popular subjects, which peasants bought to protect their homes, to his wares. Remondini developed his own print shop, purchasing an old press, from which originated one of the most important intaglio prints in Europe. To the brightly colored prints were added games, such as the goose ride or paper soldiers, and story booklets to satisfy the tastes of the petty people. In 1711, upon the founder's death, the estate was divided among the heirs, and the printing house fell to his son Giuseppe (Bassano 1672 - circa 1750), and his descendants. Giuseppe imprinted a marked development on the enterprise, taking ownership, or at least control, of several paper mills.
An extraordinary variety of products began to emerge from the Bassano workshops, whose iconographic imagery depended heavily on fashions and their evolutions: fans, board games of all kinds made even in different languages, playing cards, optical views of cities used in new world shows, prints prepared to be glued to furniture called "a lacca povera" or on other objects, such as boxes and snuff boxes, sheets with figures to be cut out with groups of images such as nativity scenes, toy soldiers, crafts, business cards, wallpaper, all materials punctually recorded in the very rich catalogs that from 1729 began to be regularly published and that constitute one of the main sources for the study of the Remondini's production (Remondini, 1990, pp. 77-81; Carnelos, 2008, pp. 37-39). Giuseppe also oversaw the establishment of a workshop entrusted to the care of Giuliano Giampiccoli and then Antonio Baratti for the practical training of the engravers needed by the firm, improperly referred to as a "school of intaglio." He also implanted a printing house in Venice, and here his son Giovan Battista (Bassano 1713 - Castello Tesino 1776) called the best engravers of the time to collaborate. With Giovan Battista's son Giuseppe (Bassano 1754 - ivi 1811) and his brother Antonio Bartolomeo, the intaglio reached an important dimension; production increased to a planetary level. The old network of door-to-door salesmen was replaced by an efficient network of distributors on their own, organized by geographical areas. The Tesini covered Europe from Germany to the Nordic countries, then pushed westward to the Americas; the Schiavoni, entrusted with the entire east of the world, reached as far as the Pacific Ocean. With these two major distribution centers, the printing house's commercial network was able to reach four continents.
Under the direction of Giuseppe's son Francesco Girolamo (1773-1820) it was, however, shaken by legal disputes and political events; the decline began in the first half of the 19th century, after the Napoleonic invasions. At the turn of the century the Remondini printing works had 18 presses for letterpress and woodcut impressions, 24 for copperplate engravings, equipment for printing special papers and wallpapers, 4 paper mills and a foundry for lead typefaces, employing more than 1,000 workers. By 1840 production was still substantial, but unsold goods were already piling up. In 1848 the collapse began; the stores were closed, and all the material sold (1859-60), and in 1861 the company closed its doors.
Bibliografia
A. Bertarelli, La Remondiniana di Bassano Veneto, in “Emporium”, LXVIII (1928), pp. 358-369; M. Infelise, I Remondini di Bassano. Stampa e industria nel Veneto del Settecento, Bassano del Grappa 1990; A.W.A. Boschloo, The prints of the Remondinis: an attempt to reconstruct an eighteenth-century world of pictures, Amsterdam 1998; L. Carnelos, I libri da risma. Catalogo delle edizioni R. a larga diffusione (1650-1850), Milano 2008; A. Milano, Selling prints for the R.’: Italian pedlars from the Tesino and Natisone Valleys travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century, in Not dead things the dissemination of popular print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820, Amsterdam 2013, pp 75-96.
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