Raccolta di disegni originali di Francesco Mazzola detto il Parmigianino tolti dal Gabinetto Sanvitali, Incisi da Benigno Bossi

published 1789

Benigno Bossi

Artist, Italian, 1727 - 1792

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 180 etchings, some with engraving, aquatint, wash manner, or chalk manner, printed in black and brown inks, on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, David K.E. Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 50.5 × 35 × 4 cm (19 7/8 × 13 3/4 × 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.61.2601

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Associated Artworks

Vase with Monstrous Grasshoppers

Benigno Bossi

1780

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, as Vase with Monstrous Grasshoppers, in Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot Marquis de Felino.

Bibliography

2000

  • Pollak et al. 2000, no. 23

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled letters on red leather label on spine of black-leather binding: PETITOT / ET / BOSSI

Markings

inside front cover: bookplates of Charles Frederic and John Harris

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