A Series Of Outlines, Consisting Of Seventeen Plates, From The Last Judgment, Painted By Michael Angelo Buonaroti, In The Sixtine Chapel, At Rome; Engraved By J. Stephanoff.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/882

Imprint

[S.l.]:: [s.n.],, (1811).

Physical Description

[1] f., [16] pl.: [1] vignette; 536 mm.

General Note

The sixteen unnumbered plates and the title-page vignette form a total of seventeen plates, as called for by the title.

Contents

[T.p.] - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

Plate [3] is signed as engraved by J. Stephanoff; all others are unsigned.

No name of publisher or printer is given.

Summary Note

No publication-date is carried by the title page; but one plate ([3]) carries the date 1811.

Plate [3] shows an overview of the whole fresco; the other plates and the title-page vignette show details. The fresco was originally painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Palace between 1535 and 1541.

Provenance

Prince Hoare Bequest (1836).

Copy Note

The front pastedown carries a bookseller's ticket, which reads, 'Priestley & Weale's Establishment Of Works on the Fine Arts, No. 5, High Street, Bloomsbury, London'.

Binding Note

20th-century half green calf, 19th-century marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Last Judgment'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Last Judgment - Future life - Christian art and symbolism - Iconography
Paintings, Italian - Frescoes - Mural painting and decoration - Church decoration and ornament - Churches - Chapels - Palaces - Italy - Rome - Vatican City - Vatican Palace (Vatican City) - Cappelle Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Michelangelo Buonarroti, source artist
James Stephanoff, engraver
Prince Hoare, previous owner, donor