Italian Sculptors: Being A History Of Sculpture In Northern, Southern, And Eastern Italy. By Charles C. Perkins. ... With Etchings By The Author, And Engravings On Wood From Original Drawings And Photographs.

Charles C. Perkins

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/4053

Author

Variant Title

Sculpture In Northern, Southern, And Eastern Italy

Imprint

London:: Longmans, Green, And Co., 1868.

Physical Description

xi, [1], 326 p., frontis., 29, [4] pl.: illus.; 275 mm. (Quarto.)

General Note

Of the four additional plates the first (dble.) is unnumbered, the second is numbered 'XVIII', the third 'XIX bis' and the fourth ''XX bis'.

Contents

[Half-t., frontis., t.p.] - Preface - Contents - Illustrations; Errata - [Text] - Appendices - Addenda to 'Tuscan Sculptors' - Index; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

Most plates are signed as engraved or drawn and engraved by 'CCP'. Nos. 5, 6, 8 are signed as drawn by Ufer and engraved by CCP. Two of the additional plates are signed as drawn by H. de Triqueti and engraved by CCP.

Some in-text illustrations are signed 'JG', or as engraved by Sotain or F. Simon.

The printers' name is given on the half-title verso and in the colophon: 'London: Printed By Spottiswoode And Co., New-Street Square And Parliament Street'.

References

S. Eliot, Memoir of the life of Charles Callahan Perkins (1887).

S.B. McHam, Looking at Italian Renaissance sculpture (1998); J. Pope-Hennessy, The study and criticism of Italian sculpture (1990).

Summary Note

The half-title reads, 'Sculpture In Northern, Southern, And Eastern Italy.'

Perkins's Tuscan Sculptors had appeared in 1864.

Binding Note

19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Italian Sculptors Perkins', 'R.A.' and '1868'.

Subject

Sculptors - Sculpture - Italy - History
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors