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GIOVANNI D. TIEPOLO Fuga in Egito, Frontespizio: Le Armi di Carlo Filippo.
Etching, circa 1753. 186x234 mm; 7 1/2x9 1/4 inches, wide margins. Second state (of 2), with the number lower left. Star in a cartouche watermark (similar to Heawood 805). A very good impression with strong contrasts.
The frontispiece etching to Tiepolo's Fuga in Egito, with the coat-of-arms of Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, to whom Tiepolo dedicated the seires of etchings, a personfication of Fame to the right of the arms and a distant view of the castle of Würzburg lower right. DeVesme 2; Rizzi 68.
