La Carta Del Navegar Pitoresco: Dialogo Tra vn Senator venetian deletante, e vn professor de Pitura, soto nome d'Ecelenza, e de Compare ; Comparti In Oto Venti ...
Marco Boschini's 1660 Venetian verse dialogue La Carta del Navegar Pitoresco, written as a guide to Venetian painting for a connoisseur, is organised into eight winds with engraved plates headed by their wind name and page number. The four pictures show allegorical and mythological scenes in fine etched line with dense hatching, cloud and landscape backgrounds, and figures in classical drapery, offering a designer examples of how black-and-white engraving builds tone, atmosphere and weathered architecture through parallel strokes.
