"Streets and Canals in Venice 65"

Black and white plate from 'Streets and Canals in Venice and in the Islands of the Lagoons'.

Plate 65 includes the following note in the book's annex: "LOGGETTA at the foot of S. Mark's Tower. - This elegant little building was erected by Sansovino, in 1540, to serve as Guard-room for the officers on duty during sittings in the Ducal Palace. It is richly constructed of coloured Sittings in the Ducal Palace. It is marbles, with a terrace surrounded by a balustrade of red Verona, closed by an admirable bronze wicket by Antonio Gai in 1750. It is also adorned with bronze statues - standing in niches - of Minerva, Apollo, Mercury and Peace by Sansovino, and whith Basreliefs in marble by Girolamo da Ferrara. - At present it is only used fir the extraction of the five numbers of the Public Lottery which takes place there every Saturday."

Publisher: Ferd. Ongania - Venice

Printer: D. Appleton and Company - New York

Condition: Good; please note light foxing on the left side.

Material: Heliogravure

Plate size is 13.5" x 9"