Giovanni Maggi (1566 – 1618)
FANCIFUL LANDSCAPE WITH WATERFALL, RUINS, AND CITY WITH TALL SPIRES IN THE BACKGROUND.
1595. Unrecorded? Etching, 230 x 335mm (9 1/16 x 13 1/16”), trimmed along the plate mark. Fine impression in good condition, with minor discoloration, and missing the tip of the upper right corner.
An early work of Maggi, before the architecture, maps, and Bichierografia (a collection of some 1600 glassware patterns), for which he is best known.
$2,800.
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