Descrizione della raccolta di stampe di S.E. il sig. conte Jacopo Durazzo, patrizio genovese, ec. ec., esposta in una dissertazione sull'arte dell'intagio a stampa

published 1784

Bartolommeo Benincasa

Author, Italian, 1745 - c. 1825

Giambattista Bodoni

Printer, Italian, 1740 - 1813

dalla Reale Stamperia

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress title page, letterpress text, and portrait frontispiece of Giacomo Durazzo by Giovanni David and Giovanni Vitalba on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 30.2 × 22 × 1.2 cm (11 7/8 × 8 11/16 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.193.1

Associated Artworks

Portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo

Giovanni David, Giovanni Vitalba

1779

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

La vecchia Parma antiquariato, No. 1534 (bookplate). Miari Pelli Fabbroni (bookplate). (Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in frontispiece, in plate, in image, below portrait: J. COMTE DE DURAZZO / Noble Genois / Ambassadeur Imperial a Venise.; in frontispiece, in plate, at bottom left: David Gen. in. et ornavit; in frontispiece, in plate, below image, at bottom right: Vitalba vultum perfecit; on second free endpaper in brown ink: Dono al Co. Durazzo meo[?]. / 17]?]7. / G: Pelli[?]

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