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Extract from the titlepage from 1577. Two woodcuts, one of St Sebastian tied to a tree, pierce by arrows, the other of St Roch, showing the plague buboes on his thigh.
Detail of some houses and a few churches from the map in the previous post.
Engraved map of Venice on yellowed paper,with a large legend at the bottom, occupying maybe 40% of the height.
The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The enlarged area is in the lower left, showing four men in silhouette, running towards the right. The two men in the front seem more affluent based on their dress. The first is running fast, holding on to his hat, while pointing towards the gondola incident. Another well-dressed man follows his indication. Two servants, one carrying a stick, are right behind them.
The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The focused area is in the lower right, where two gondolas have crashed, one ramming the other. There's a man in the water swimming away, probably from the boat hit, while the other rower from that same boat is using his oar like a spear to knock over a man who's in the other boat
The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The detail is of two men in the water. One is trying to climb back into the boat he fell from, which another is swimming towards the shore for safety. He's looking backwards, at the two men fighting with their oars
The same monochrome print from the 1700s, with a circular area enlarged and emphasised. The area is of three workboats in the middle of the canal. They have crashed into each other, there's a man in the water, and two men from different boats have their oars raised high in the air, as they're about to strike each other
A modern photo of the same scene as in the 1700s print, where little has changed, but the church buildings in the background are gone, and replaced by a garden behind a brick wall.
A monochrome print from the 1700s on yellowed paper. The composition has three levels. In the back, a Venetian quayside with some multi-storey buildings on the left, a bridge slightly right of centre, and parts of a church on the right. In mid-level is a canal with many rowed boats of different types, in apparent chaos. In the foreground, in the shade, are several figures in silhouette, some running, and several more boats along the canal side.
Left half of the image shows a column of the Doge's Palace in Venice, with a graffiti of a sailing ship. The other half an elderly woman walking past.
Screenshot of a paragraph from a book in Venetian from 1721 - the text is in the following posts.
Contemporary painting of the Austrian troops in St Mark's square in 1798
Drawing of a man in 1700s Venice showing a bird cage with a songbird to two better clad men.