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Santa Maria Della Salute by Sparrow, John - 1975
by Sparrow, John
Santa Maria Della Salute
by Sparrow, John
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Cambridge, UK: Rampant Lions Press, 1975. First printing. (4) pp., 15.5 x 22.75 inches. Folder with poem by Sparrow and two images designed and printed letterpress by Will Carter at Rampant Lions, on paper made by J. Barcham Green, enclosing a reproduction of a drawing by Piper printed by Cotswold Collotype and signed in the plate. Edition of two hundred numbered copies, signed by both author and artist. Collotype very fine; folder about fine, with very mild corner crease and slight age-toning.
John Sparrow, literary historian and Oxford don, was also a poet; his paean to the Venetian church of Santa Maria Della Salute (famously depicted by Canaletto, Turner, Sargent, and others) is accompanied by a fine collotype print from a dramatic drawing by John Piper.
A painter perhaps equally known for his work in textiles, tapestries, and stained glass, Pipers involvement with this particular church went back at least to the late 1950s, when it was the basis for one of his many innovative textile designs for Arthur Sanderson & Sons.
John Sparrow, literary historian and Oxford don, was also a poet; his paean to the Venetian church of Santa Maria Della Salute (famously depicted by Canaletto, Turner, Sargent, and others) is accompanied by a fine collotype print from a dramatic drawing by John Piper.
A painter perhaps equally known for his work in textiles, tapestries, and stained glass, Pipers involvement with this particular church went back at least to the late 1950s, when it was the basis for one of his many innovative textile designs for Arthur Sanderson & Sons.
- Bookseller Passages Bookshop (US)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First printing
- Publisher Rampant Lions Press
- Place of Publication Cambridge, UK
- Date Published 1975