Newcome Schleier (Mary); Grasso (Giovanni)

(25 cm), 224 pp., 60 colour and 124 black & white illustrations. Publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jacket. - Catalogues of the drawings (Newcome Schleier) and prints (Grasso) of the Genoese artist Giovanni David (1749-1790), a pupil in Rome of Domenico Corvi, who worked extensively in Venice for Giacomo Pier Francesco Durazzo, producing reproductive prints of frescoes and paintings, “Divers portraits” (in aquatint, a technique David introduced into Italy), and as a painter of vedute and stage scenery. Introduction also in English. Reviewed by F. Carlo Schmid, in Print Quarterly, volume 21 (2004), pp.469-472. ¶ As new.