Le vite de pittori, scoltori, et architetti Genovesi
1674
Author, Genoese, 1612 - 1672
Designer, Italian, Genoese, 1628 - 1703
Engraver, French, 1632 - 1704
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 1 engraved frontispiece and 21 engraved portraits with woodcut borders on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 53.34 × 17.78 × 2.86 cm (21 × 7 × 1 1/8 in.)
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Accession
2015.107.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Victor Albert George Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey [1845-1915], London (bookplate). Wigan Free Public Library, Manchester (bookplate and stamp, Lugt undescribed). [Studio Bibliografico, Molinella, Bologna]; Puchased 2015 by NGA.
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Inscriptions
inside cover upper left in graphite: 14/b; in pen across free end-paper; cat bought July 1909./ H7.7.; on verso of title-page in graphite: H. 3.418; center: 48349; square stamp in purple with graphite: case 13:2; lower cover upper left in graphite: [not deciphered]