Architetture E Prospettive Dedicate Alla Maestà Di Carlo Sesto Imperador De' Romani Da Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Suo Primo Ingegner Teatrale, Ed Architetto, Inventore Delle Medesime.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2500
Imprint
Parisiis: Apud Basan, [1740]
Physical Description
Engr. t.-pl., 50 pl.; 566 mm.
Responsibility Note
Plates 18-20 are unsigned. All others are signed as designed and drawn by I.G. Bibiena, and engraved by I.A. Pfeffel, Andreas & Ioseph Schmuzer, L. Zucchi or Salomon Kleiner.
References
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, III (1998), 37; Royal Indtitute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1165; Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 136, p.116-7.
J. A. Hatfield, The relationship between late Baroque architecture and scenography, 1703-1778 [dissertation] (Ann Arbor, UMI, 1984).
Summary Note
This work was also published from Augsburg in the same year.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
Binding Note
18th-century marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Architetture, E Prospettive'.