Regolo (dello scrivere)

1653

Valerio Spada

Artist, Florentine, 1613 - 1688

Medium

bound MS with 32 p. of calligraphy examples and related drwgs. in pen and brown ink, some with gold ink, and many w/ initial, head-, and tail-piece illustrations
Credit Line

Gift of the Kimbell Art Foundation, Courtesy Ruth Carter Stevenson
Dimensions

page size: 26.6 x 19.2 cm (10 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)
Accession

1987.40.60

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pietro, Principe Ginori-Conti

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1994

Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Page with Calligraphic Ornament in "Regolo (dello scrivere)".

Bibliography

1981

Inscriptions

signed and dated in pen and brown ink on dedication page; various notations and dealer marks on inside back and front covers

Markings

mountain above (mountain similar to Briquet 11946), cross inscribed in circle with crown at top

Watermarks

initials MAS with *