Gualtieri Bivalve Shells. Heritage Editions print, Marine Life T71.

by Gualtieri, Niccolo

Elegantly grouped shells from Museum of Niccolo Gualtieri.

Reproduction print from a series of hand-coloured copperplate engravings by Pietro Antonio Pazzi (1706-66), Teresa Mogalli, and Bernardo Sansone Sgrilli, after the drawings by painter, draughtsman and engraver Giuseppe Menabuoni (1708-?) and painter and engraver Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692-1768) for a treatise on Shells, Index Testarum Conchyliorum, published in Florence circa 1742 by Niccolo Gualtieri (1688-1744).

Print size: 45 x 30cm (17.75 x 11.75 inches)