Fiori Diversi Raccolti da Giuseppe Padovani Argentano, 1772

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Medium

album of 38 botanical watercolor illustrations, a trompe l'oeil watercolor frontispiece of scattered playing and Tarot cards and a bordered title page

Dimensions

book: 30.3 × 22.3 × 1.3 cm (11 15/16 × 8 3/4 × 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener

Accession Number

2013.194.1.1

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Padovani (artist) Italian

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Inscription

illustrations numbered individually by later hand in brown ink upper right; recto of frontispiece upper center in graphite: 17xx; inside lower cover upper center in brown ink: Libro di Fiori Segnato dal numero y fino al 40; upper right in red pencil(?): [?]-80; upper right in graphite: #DA2 02 / ID 76769 / 2 voll; lower center in brown ink: (not deciphered)

Provenance

[Sims Reed Rare Books, sale, 53rd New York Antiquarian Book Fair, 11-14, April, 2011, no. 63] Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Sims Reed Limited