Author: Carl Gottlieb Guttemberg (1743-1790), after Jean Baptiste Antoine Tierce (1737- ca. 1790)
Title: [Antique etching, ets] C.G. Guttemberg, after J.B.A. Tierce, Vue des Laves anciennement sorties du Vesuve et amoncelees suv le bord del Mer pres le Palais de Portici, published before 1800.
Description: Print from Jean Claude Richard Abbé di Saint-Non's “Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicilie.” (1781-1787) showing the caves of lava overlooking the palace of Portici near Naples.Titled below: Vue des Laves anciennement sorties du Vesuve et amoncelees suv le bord del Mer pres le Palais de Portici. signed: Dessiné d'apres nature par J.B.  Tierce / Gravé par Carl Guttenberg.On the verso of the cardboard mount collector's mark not in Lugt: Coll. AK Amersfoort in pencil. Etching on paper, trimmed within plate mark, mounted on cardboard with inscribed information concerning the makers; total: 248 x 353 mm; corners damaged due to the mounting, bottom right corner taped, vertical crease near the middle, otherwise nice impression.

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