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The title to a volume of Giulio Campi's drawings c. 1730-50
Pen and bistre, with watercolour and gold | 37.5 x 52.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 970145

Antonio Visentini (Venice 1688- Venice 1782)
The title to a volume of Giulio Campi's drawings c. 1730-50
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The titlepage to an album of drawings after the scenes depicted on Trajan's Column in Rome: an elaborate Doric arcade encloses an inscription, below which appears the coat-of-arms of Joseph Smith.
Visentini was employed by Consul Smith to paint titlepages for the folios in which he bound up his drawings. Six of these volumes survive with their titles; the others have been broken up for mounting and the titlepages have disappeared, except that from the Canaletto volume. It is likely that similar titlepages existed in Smith's volumes of Marco Ricci and Piazzetta drawings, and perhaps in the Carracci and Castiglione folios.Provenance
Commissioned by Joseph Smith; probably acquired in 1762 by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice
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Medium and techniques
Pen and bistre, with watercolour and gold
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37.5 x 52.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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