Separately issued map of Milan’s area in Lombardy designed by Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline published in 1949. The pictorial map shows vignettes of structures, nature, activities, products, crops and many towns and cities labelled.
Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline (1890-1962) was a renowned Russian painter, printmaker, ceramicist, designer and illustrator born in the Ukraine in 1890. For a time he was with the Imperial Academy of Petersburg. His teaching career there was interrupted by the Bolshevik revolution. He was forced to flee and, after a daring journey, arrived in Constantinople accompanied by the Countess Bossalinie Aida who later became his wife. They survived in this city with menial jobs, and were finally able to join relatives in Genoa in 1920 where he held his first exhibition. In 1922 he moved to Nervi, opening a studio at the first Polish residence, meeting other Russian and Polish exiles. His years were rich in relationships, artists, and writers for whom he designed several books and arranged illustrations, commissions of portraits and more. In 1941 he was inaugurated into the Teatro Carlo Felice and designed sets for La Scala and the Metropolitan New York. He was an important illustrator of more than 100 children’s books.
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A rare and very decorative scene of the battle near Cassano. From “Repraesentatio belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico…”, published in Ausburg in 1720 by Jeremias Wolff. Inset in the beautifull cartouche a little map of the area.
- Year: 1720
- Dimension: 380 x 480 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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A rare and very decorative view by Johann August Corvinus (1683-1738) after Georg Philipp Rugendas (1666-1742) showing the siege of Milan during the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1713 from the Repraesentatio belli, ob successionem in Regno Hispanico…, published in Ausburg in 1720 by Jeremias Wolff.
- Year: 1720
- Dimension: 385 x 445 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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La più importante, ambita e rara veduta generale della città di Brescia
- Year: 1764
- Dimension: 1360 x 605 mm
- Place of publication: Brescia
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Plan of the town from “Piante delle citt capoluoghi delle Provincie del Regno Lombardo Veneto che mostrano la situazione dei principali Stabilimenti Civili e Militari in esse esistenti”published in Milan in 1838. Rare original colours. [cod.355/15]
- Year: 1838
- Dimension: 338 x 185 mm
- Place of publication: Milan
