Fragments choisis dans les Peintures et les tableaux les plus intéressants des palais et des églises de l'Italie (Fragments chosen from the most interesting paintings and canvases of the palaces and churches of Italy), 1767-1775

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Medium

bound volume with 200 etching and aquatint illustrations (6 titles, 194 plates), printed in brown and black on laid paper

Dimensions

book (volume closed): 27.7 × 20.7 × 3.5 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/8 × 1 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as an Anonymous Gift

Accession Number

2013.169.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (artist) French, 1727 - 1791

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hands, inside upper cover upper right in ink: 84-66-3; center in graphite: 1770-1775 / ref: Louis Guimbaud only knows of one copy / containing all six parts, as does this copy: namely the copy of Maurice Pereire / Rome 40 plates - Guimbaud no. 59 / Rome 20 plates - Guimbaud no. 62 / Bologna 40 plates - Guimbaud no. 65 / Venice 40 plates - Guimbaud no. 68 / Naples 30 plates - Guimbaud no. 66 / Herculaneum and Naples 20 plates - Guimbaud no. 67 / plus 10 untitled plates at the end / not part of this work - very rare; free endpaper facing title plate upper left in brown ink underlined: 480; upper right of title plate in graphite underlined: B3L; lower cover upper left in graphite: 9/13/-; upper right: 2781/768

Provenance

John Peachey, Sussex (bookplate dated 1782). West Dean Library, Sussex (library label). acquired from Marlborough Rare Books, 1984; Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston (bookplate); (Christie's via Ursus Books, New York, sale: Tuesday 29, October, 2013, lot 768); purchased 2013 as an anonymous gift to NGA.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.
Vershbow, Arthur E., Mr.

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1912: 931.

2021: Hoisington, Rena.Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 79, fig. 7.