Di Hvngaria et Transilavania
| Reference: | s26294 |
| Author | Giacomo FRANCO |
| Year: | 1597 ca. |
| Zone: | Hungary |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 205 x 150 mm |
€250.00
| Reference: | s26294 |
| Author | Giacomo FRANCO |
| Year: | 1597 ca. |
| Zone: | Hungary |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 205 x 150 mm |
€250.00
Description
Etching with engraving, about 1597, signed on plate in the title. Beautiful impresson, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, in excellent condition.
Rare map included for the first time in Descrittione Geografica Delle Isole, Città, & Fortezze principali, che si trovano in mare nel viaggio da Venetia a Costantinopoli, con molte altre a queste vicine, di nuovo aggiunte printed in Venice in 1597 by Giacomo Franco.
Giacomo Franco, the natural son of the painter and printmaker Battista Franco and that Francesca da Urbino, was born in Venice, or perhaps more likely in Urbino in 1550.
Exercised, in Venice, the profession of an engraver, copperplate engraver and publisher, although in his will, drawn June 16, 1620 by the notary Fausto Doglioni, he defines "desegnador". His name never occurs in the acts of art ""libreri, stampatori e ligadori", while it is in the lists of the painters' guild, the dates 1606 and 1619, terms that probably indicate the year of enrollment to the art, and to cessation.
His work as an illustrator was very wide, but his fame is mainly due to two works on the Venetian costume. As for scoring siglava usual "Francus Jacobus, Giacomo Franco, Franco fecit" as a publisher "Franco Forma".
Giacomo FRANCO (Venezia o Urbino 1550 - Venezia 1620)
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Designer, engraver, printer, dealer and publisher of books and prints. Active in Venice. Record of death 28 June 1620. He was described as 'Intagliator di rame' in the necrology of S. Moise; in his will he described himself as 'dessegnador' (Bode). Illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei. He may have begun at his father's shop 'In Venetia a Santa Fosca'. By 1595 he was established 'all'Insegna del Sole' in the Frezzeria. 1579 a 'Jacopo Franco' inscribed in the Arte dei Stampatori e Librari of Venice (Brown). Giacomo was matriculated in gild of painters in Venice, 1606-1619 (Favaro). In 16 November 1591 he obtained a privilege for a "libro delli habiti alla venetiana". 20 July 1596, Franco acquired a privilege for a writing book and for a book of sewing models (mostre da cucir), with 16 woodcuts and 8 engravings (Nuova inventione de diverse mostre, Venice 1596, Strange, no.24, p.227). A privilege granted 17 June 1597 for a copper plate of the miracle-making Madonna of Treviso. Another privilege, 15 November 1597, for Giuseppe Rosaccio's Il viaggio di Venetia a Costantinopoli.
Franco's first dated print 1572. Executed plates for Nelli, the Bertelli and others. He specialized in prints showing Venice, its life and customs. He inherited at least some of his father's plates and acquired a number of plates which had originally carried the address of Orazio and Luca Bertelli (e.g. 1582 Agostino Carracci engravings after Veronese and Tintoretto).
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Giacomo FRANCO (Venezia o Urbino 1550 - Venezia 1620)
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Designer, engraver, printer, dealer and publisher of books and prints. Active in Venice. Record of death 28 June 1620. He was described as 'Intagliator di rame' in the necrology of S. Moise; in his will he described himself as 'dessegnador' (Bode). Illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Franco, il Semolei. He may have begun at his father's shop 'In Venetia a Santa Fosca'. By 1595 he was established 'all'Insegna del Sole' in the Frezzeria. 1579 a 'Jacopo Franco' inscribed in the Arte dei Stampatori e Librari of Venice (Brown). Giacomo was matriculated in gild of painters in Venice, 1606-1619 (Favaro). In 16 November 1591 he obtained a privilege for a "libro delli habiti alla venetiana". 20 July 1596, Franco acquired a privilege for a writing book and for a book of sewing models (mostre da cucir), with 16 woodcuts and 8 engravings (Nuova inventione de diverse mostre, Venice 1596, Strange, no.24, p.227). A privilege granted 17 June 1597 for a copper plate of the miracle-making Madonna of Treviso. Another privilege, 15 November 1597, for Giuseppe Rosaccio's Il viaggio di Venetia a Costantinopoli.
Franco's first dated print 1572. Executed plates for Nelli, the Bertelli and others. He specialized in prints showing Venice, its life and customs. He inherited at least some of his father's plates and acquired a number of plates which had originally carried the address of Orazio and Luca Bertelli (e.g. 1582 Agostino Carracci engravings after Veronese and Tintoretto).
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