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A woodcut showing the Emperor Maximilian in a triumphal chariot.
This large woodcut, over 2 metres in length, was originally planned as part of a huge printed frieze. The work, undertaken by a team of designers and woodblock cutters, was to show a triumph
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FRIEDRICH WEBER (1765–1811) AFTER ALESSANDRO D’ANNA (1746–1810)

The Eruption of Mount Etna

published by Tessari & Co., Paris, c.1800

RCIN 704028

This dramatic print was printed from three plates inked with orange, dark blue and black (the registration marks are visible at the edges of the sheet), with details added by hand. It is one of a pair, the other showing an eruption of Vesuvius, both after the Neapolitan landscape painter Alessandro d'Anna. The prints emulate the spectacular nocturnal views of eruptions in Sir William Hamilton's Campi Phlegraei (1776–9), but they were produced by a German engraver who had never travelled to Italy and published in Paris.


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