"Streets and Canals in Venice 1"

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

Plate 1 includes the following note in the book's annex: "PARADISE STREET AND BRIDGE. - Some derive this name from the patrician family Paradiso. Others— and with more reason — are of opinion that it originated with the splendour of adornment and illumination here displayed on the principal solemnities of the Church. - The arch which joins the houses on each side of the bridge is of the XV. century: the image of the B. Virgin is sculptured on it, and it is also decorated on one side with the arms of the Foscari, on the other with those of the Foscari and Mocenigo."

Publisher: Ferd. Ongania - Venice

Printer: D. Appleton and Company - New York

Condition: Good; please note the crease on the bottom right corner.

Material: Heliogravure

Plate size is 13.5" x 9"