BUSUTTIL, Salvatore (1798-1854). [Solenne processione Vaticana del Corpus Domini. Diretta da uno de' Cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI.] Rome: Deodato Minelli, 1837. Etched panorama, HAND-COLOURED THROUGHOUT AND PART HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, five sheets joined (together 260 x 2040mm to the plate mark), mounted on linen with integral wooden spool and bar, rolled in a contemporary blue leather-covered tube with fuchsia paper lining (some spotting and soiling, tube lacking ends and rubbed).

BUSUTTIL, Salvatore (1798-1854). [Solenne processione Vaticana del Corpus Domini. Diretta da uno de' Cerimonieri di Sua Santità Gregorio XVI.] Rome: Deodato Minelli, 1837. Etched panorama, HAND-COLOURED THROUGHOUT AND PART HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, five sheets joined (together 260 x 2040mm to the plate mark), mounted on linen with integral wooden spool and bar, rolled in a contemporary blue leather-covered tube with fuchsia paper lining (some spotting and soiling, tube lacking ends and rubbed).
A VERY RARE HAND-COLOURED PANORAMA OF A PAPAL PROCESSION BY A MALTESE ARTIST. The Papal canopy and the garments of the higher-ranking participants have been heightened in gold. Principal participants are numbered in the engraving, with a caption below the scene. Busuttil was a Maltese artist working in Rome. VERY RARE: ABPC records no copy sold at auction in over 35 years. The Feltrinelli collection held a similar panorama published the following year (Christie's, 3 December 1997, lot 247, £16,100). Abbey, Life, 538.