Relatione di Alfonso Isachi. Intorno l'Orginie, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (The Report of Alfonso Isachi on the Origination, Ceremony, Conveyance, and Miracles of the Madonna Reggio)
1619
Artist, Italian, 1583 - 1650
Author, Italian, 1539 - 1679
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with engraved title and 11 double-page or folded etched and engraved illustrations
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 23.34 × 17.78 cm (9 3/16 × 7 in.)
title page: 21.11 × 13.02 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2003.66.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Berlin 1939, no. 3199
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
[monastery of Modonese, Reggio, 1643?]. (Sims Reed Ltd, London); purchased 2003 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, 1979, 48-49
Bibliography
1939
Berlin, Staatliche Museen. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin and Leipzig, 1939: no. 3199.
2003
Sims Reed Ltd., Milan Book Fair 2003. no. 22.
Inscriptions
At top of spine in pen and brown ink: Isacchi / [...] della / madon di / Reggio; on lower spine in pen and brown ink: 120; on first paste-down upper right in graphite: 3/66/TT/153; on first paste-down upper left in graphite: ESSXX/; on first paste-down lower right in pen and brown ink: 43b; on first free endpaper upper left in graphite: call ml / Engr t-p. / +11 plates. / 65-8 never / printed; on first free endpaper upper center in pen and brown ink, a long inscription, mostly indecipherable, that seems to mention the book's arrival at the monastery of Modonese (in Reggio) on February 14, 1643; on final paste-down upper left in pen and brown ink: A Cas. 175; upper right in pen and brown ink: L7 [underscored twice] / 2