"Streets and Canals in Venice 93"

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

Plate 93 includes the following note in the book's annex: "SANT'ELENA. — This was was one of the most picturesque among the islands that surround the city. Bishop Vitale Michiel founded a hospice here for the poor and for pilgrims in 1170. In 1420 Alessandro Borromeo, a Florentine nobleman, built a Monastery for Carthusians who remained there till 1806. A great Englishwoman,the Empress years since the island was purchased by the Comune to serve as the site for a hospital for Contagious diseases, but this idea was afterwards abandoned and a large iron-foundry was erected in its stead, and completely ruining its artistic aspect."

Publisher: Ferd. Ongania - Venice

Printer: D. Appleton and Company - New York

Condition: Good; please note foxing on the bottom and lower right side.

Material: Heliogravure

Plate size is 13.5" x 9"