The Four Books of Andrea Palladio's Architecture: Wherein, After a short Treatise of the Five Orders, Those Observations that are most necessary in Building, Private Houses, Streets, Bridges, Piazzas, Xisti, and Temples are treated of.
published 1738
Isaac Ware
Artist, British, 1704 - 1766
Andrea Palladio
Author, Italian, 1508 - 1580
Artwork overview
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Medium
4 parts bound in 1 vol: ill: 4 engraved title pages plus 206 engravings (all full-page, versos blank, part 1 plates printed in brown), unsigned
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 40.7 x 24.8 cm (16 x 9 3/4 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 41.7 x 26.8 x 5.9 cm (16 7/16 x 10 9/16 x 2 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.50
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
bookplate of Rolle family; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.
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Bibliography
1998
Middleton et al. 1998, no. 53.