Descrizione delle feste celebrate in Parma l'anno MDCCLXIX per le auguste nozze di Sua Altezza Reale L'Infante Don Ferdinando colla Reale l'Archiduchessa Maria Amalia.
1769
Various Engravers after Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
Artist
Engraver, Italian, 1727 - 1792
Engraver, Italian, 1733 - 1803
Engraver, Italian, 1711 - 1786
Printer, Italian, 1740 - 1813
Engraver, Italian, c. 1730 - c. 1814
Artist After, French, 1727 - 1801
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 1 etched frontispiece, 1 etched and engraved title-page vignette, 36 etchings (6 double-spread), 4 etched head-pieces, 19 etched and engraved tail-pieces, and 8 etched initials
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 58 × 43 × 3 cm (22 13/16 × 16 15/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2016.86.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Cohen 1912, no. 295
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Charles Salmatoris Rossillion, Le Comte de l'empire (bookplate). Thomas Seyssel d'Aix (bookplate). Purchased as a gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1912
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris: 1912, 295.
Inscriptions
by later hands, in graphite inside upper cover upper left: [?]. 1 2; 2nd free endpaper lower right: G1007 / 255; in graphite 1st free endpaper upper right: 348v6; in graphite on lower cover upper right: coll. [?] fl. ls. / titolo fig. nic. / 36 [?]. (6a doppio page) / 30 vignette, [?] / Brooks 6 / Gicognone 1525 / Cohen Ricci 295 / Bell [?], ttec
Watermarks
a cross over initials: AM