Johann Baptist Homann

(1664 - 1724)

Double page engraving on copper, watercolored, with passe-aprut. Title within beautiful cartouche supported by Ceres and Bacchus, allegories of Sardinia and Sicily, with amorines and coats of arms of the two islands. On the side, volcano, representation of the Aeolian islands with a classic reference to the cyclops intent on forge weapons. At the bottom left of the small plan of the city of Catania with Etna in eruption, on the right plant of the Valletta

matrix 48.5x 57 cm, passe-partout cm 70.5x78.5 cm