The Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti in Ten Books of Painting in Three Books and of Statuary in One Book. Translated into Italian by Cosimo Bartoli. And Now First Into English, and Divided Into Three Volumes by James Leoni, Venetian, Architect; To Which Are Added Several Designs of His Own, For Buildings Both Public and Private, published 1726

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Medium

books I through X in 1 vol: ill: frontispiece by Bernard Picart plus 103 engravings by Giacomo Leoni with 30 by Picart as engraver and several by John Harris and James Cole as engravers

Dimensions

page size: 45 x 28 cm (17 11/16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Accession Number

1983.49.4

Artists / Makers

Bernard Picart (artist) French, 1673 - 1733

Giacomo Leoni (artist) Italian, c. 1686 - 1746

James Cole (artist) British, active c. 1720 - active 1743

John Harris (artist) British, active 1686/1740

Leon Battista Alberti (author) Florentine, 1404 - 1472

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Inscription

by later hand, on english title page, upper right in black ink: Abm. Welland / July 13th 1829-; by later hand, front endpaper, upper center in graphite: armes of Lewis WATSON / 1er Comte de Rockingham- / Mewes armes [illeg.] Platz

Provenance

Bookplate of the Marquess of Rockingham. Abraham Welland, by 1829. Bookplate of Charles Frédéric Mewes. Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.

Associated Names

Mewes, Charles Frédéric
Millard, Mark Jacob
Welland, Abraham

Bibliography

1998: Middleton et al. 1998, no. 4.