Santa Maria Della Salute
Cambridge, UK: Rampant Lions Press, 1975.
First printing. (4) pp., 15.5 x 22.75 inches. Folder with poem by Sparrow and two images designed and printed letterpress by Will Carter at Rampant Lions, on paper made by J. Barcham Green, enclosing a reproduction of a drawing by Piper printed by Cotswold Collotype and signed in the plate. Edition of two hundred numbered copies, signed by both author and artist. Collotype very fine; folder about fine, with very mild corner crease and slight age-toning. Item #4557
John Sparrow, literary historian and Oxford don, was also a poet; his paean to the Venetian church of Santa Maria Della Salute (famously depicted by Canaletto, Turner, Sargent, and others) is accompanied by a fine collotype print from a dramatic drawing by John Piper.
A painter perhaps equally known for his work in textiles, tapestries, and stained glass, Piper’s involvement with this particular church went back at least to the late 1950s, when it was the basis for one of his many innovative textile designs for Arthur Sanderson & Sons.
Price: $375.00