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Samuel Prout - Como Saml. Prout ; Thomas Barber
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Print shows a view of the port on Lake Como, with boats and buildings, and with men standing on the shore in the foreground, at Como, Italy.
Published title: Port and lake of Como.
Stamped on verso: L.C. Division of Prints.
Stamped on verso: 43734.
Print has six thread-holes where sheet was removed from a binding.
Illus. from: The Continental annual and romantic cabinet for 1832 with illustrations by Samuel Prout, ... London : Smith, Elder, and Co., [1831?].
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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