Relatione di Alfonso Isachi. Intorno l'Orginie, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (The Report of Alfonso Isachi on the Origination, Ceremony, Conveyance, and Miracles of the Madonna Reggio), 1619

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Medium

bound volume with engraved title and 11 double-page or folded etched and engraved illustrations

Dimensions

book: 23.34 × 17.78 cm (9 3/16 × 7 in.)
title page: 21.11 × 13.02 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Berlin 1939, no. 3199

Accession Number

2003.66.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Luigi Valesio (artist) Italian, 1583 - 1650

Alfonso Isachi (author) Italian, 1539 - 1679

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Inscription

At top of spine in pen and brown ink: Isacchi / [...] della / madon di / Reggio; on lower spine in pen and brown ink: 120; on first paste-down upper right in graphite: 3/66/TT/153; on first paste-down upper left in graphite: ESSXX/; on first paste-down lower right in pen and brown ink: 43b; on first free endpaper upper left in graphite: call ml / Engr t-p. / +11 plates. / 65-8 never / printed; on first free endpaper upper center in pen and brown ink, a long inscription, mostly indecipherable, that seems to mention the book's arrival at the monastery of Modonese (in Reggio) on February 14, 1643; on final paste-down upper left in pen and brown ink: A Cas. 175; upper right in pen and brown ink: L7 [underscored twice] / 2

Provenance

[monastery of Modonese, Reggio, 1643?]. (Sims Reed Ltd, London); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Sims Reed Limited

Exhibition History

Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, 1979, 48-49

Bibliography

1939: Berlin, Staatliche Museen. Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. Berlin and Leipzig, 1939: no. 3199.

2003: Sims Reed Ltd., Milan Book Fair 2003. no. 22.