The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books of Painting in Three Books and of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. And Now First Into English, and Divided Into Three Volumes by James Leoni, Venetian, Architect; To Which Are Added Several Designs of His Own, For Buildings Both Public and Private

published 1726

Bernard Picart

Artist, French, 1673 - 1733

Giacomo Leoni

Artist, Italian, c. 1686 - 1746

James Cole

Artist, British, active c. 1720 - active 1743

John Harris

Artist, British, active 1686/1740

Leon Battista Alberti

Author, Florentine, 1404 - 1472

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    books I through X in 1 vol: ill: frontispiece by Bernard Picart plus 103 engravings by Giacomo Leoni with 30 by Picart as engraver and several by John Harris and James Cole as engravers

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    page size: 45 x 28 cm (17 11/16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.49.4

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Bookplate of the Marquess of Rockingham. Abraham Welland, by 1829. Bookplate of Charles Frédéric Mewes. Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Middleton et al. 1998, no. 4.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on english title page, upper right in black ink: Abm. Welland / July 13th 1829-; by later hand, front endpaper, upper center in graphite: armes of Lewis WATSON / 1er Comte de Rockingham- / Mewes armes [illeg.] Platz


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