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Il busto colossale di Francesco Primo, imperatore e re, signore nostro

1825 · Milano : Tipografia e calcografia Bettoni · 3 pictures

An 1825 Milanese publication from the Bettoni printing and engraving house, issued as a commemorative record of a colossal bust of Emperor Francis I of Austria. The three pictures are an ex libris-style armorial bookplate with a crowned shield and a plate of a bust in classical drapery. The bust engraving shows a laureled head, a cloak draped over one shoulder, and a double-headed eagle on the bust's band, which a designer could draw on for imperial or neoclassical monument imagery.

Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835 -- Monuments -- Italy -- Milan · Portrait sculpture -- Italy -- Milan

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