Veduta della Pliniana sul Lago di Como

Original etching signed by Naymiller inc. In the lower left corner and F. Campi acquire. In the lower right corner.
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Made by Milanese architect and artist, famous for his watercolors of Cremona, Milan and Pavia. The etching is executed by Domenico Landini, Italian engraver.
This etching is part of a collection of lacustrine landscapes and views of Italian monuments (Villa d'Este, Duomo of Milan ...) of an album entitled Souvenir of Milan: or Collection of the main views of this city and Of its surroundings published in 1810. Some of these views, which were later collected in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and wash.
Executed in the first quarter of the 19th century, these etchings sum up the stages of the "Grand Tour" of Italy, the obligatory journey of the post-Napoleonic nobility who came to Italy to make an artistic and bucolic pilgrimage to the great achievements of the Renaissance Tuscany and the charming Lombard and Piedmontese mountain lakes. The European aristocracy was therefore fond of these etchings of good graphic quality enhanced by brilliant colors, which brought together the high places of architecture and the Italian countryside.