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A ROYAL SOUTH ITALIAN TRAPANI CORAL-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL OBLONG FOLIO ALBUM PRESENTED TO VITTORIO EMANUELE II, KING OF ITALY (1822-1878)
BY DETKEN, NAPLES, CIRCA 1860
A ROYAL SOUTH ITALIAN TRAPANI CORAL-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL OBLONG FOLIO ALBUM PRESENTED TO VITTORIO EMANUELE II, KING OF ITALY (1822-1878) BY DETKEN, NAPLES, CIRCA 1860 The album contains twenty-five watercolours and drawings presented and dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Italy by the Municipio Napolitano , in its original silver mounted embossed brown leather and satin fitted case, marked DETKEN NAPOLI', losses to coral to the central motif The drawings and watercolours include a portrait of a female by Floriano Pietrocola (Italian, b. 1809); an interior view of the Temple of Augustus, Pompei by Gino Abbate (Italian, 19th Century); A garden scene by Gen Rua (Italian, 19th Century); The ruins at Paestum by Teodoro Duclere (Italian, 1816-1867); The love letter by L. Maurelli (Italian, 19th Century); The coast of Amalfi by R. Scopper (Italian, 19th Century); A rural landscape by G. Ginetta (Italian, 19th Century); Sea grottos by Teodoro Guglielmo Witting (Italian, 1793-1860); The ruins at Pompei by Achille Solari (Italian, 19th Century); Capodimonte by Gallarelli (Italian, 19th Century); A Garden picnic by Michele Cammarano (Italian, 1835-1920); A View of the bay of Naples and Vesuvius by Achille Solari (Italian, 19th Century); A View of Naples by Giovanni Lanza (Italian, 1827-1889); Piazza Orsini Bonivento by Achille Vianelli (Italian, 1803-1894); Cattle watering by Mario Manini (Italian, 19th Century); A romantic excursion by Luigi Pagano (Italian, 19th Century); An Interior view by Martini (Italian, 19th Century); A cattle herder by Giuseppe Simonetti (Italian, 19th Century); Rowing on the pond by Giuseppe Simonetti; The revolution by Vincenzo Pasquale Angelo Petrocelli (Italian, 1823-1896); A mill on a pond by Cesare Uva (Italian, 1824-1886); The Italian coast by Antonio Senape (1788-1850); View over a village by V. Seata (Italian, 19th Century); and View of Largo Vittorio Emanuele by Starnamianof (Continental, 19th Century) some signed, inscribed and variously dated The fitted case: 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 15½ in. (40 cm.) high