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
Artist, French, 1673 - 1733
Artist, Italian, c. 1686 - 1746
Artist, British, active c. 1720 - active 1743
Artist, British, active 1686/1740
Author, Florentine, 1404 - 1472
Artwork overview
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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
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 45 x 28 cm (17 11/16 x 11 in.)
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Accession
1983.49.4
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