No title. Tree of Life

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Italy, second half of the 18th century.

Etching and illuminated burin on laid paper.

Below: Optimo quçque dies miseris mortalibus çui / Et labor, et durç rapit inclementia mortis. Prima fugit, jubeunt morbi, tristisque senectus, / Virg. Georgicorum L. III.

Inside the image, in the lower left area: D. O. M. Mors omnia Equat.

Notes on the labels under the branches.

Very rare print. Probably from the Raimondini Bassano printing house (Venice).

Good state of preservation. Restored. Foxing.