La Processione Del Doge Nella Domenica Delle Palme Incisa in Venezia per Mattio Pagan (1556-69.)
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/1366
Imprint
Ferd. Ongania editore,, Venezia: Anno MDCCCLXXX.
Physical Description
[1] f., [8] pl.; 555×675 mm.
General Note
The title leaf and the leaves carrying the reproductions of the woodcuts are loose within the covers. The reproduced cuts are tipped in. They show the originals as lettered A-H.
Contents
[T.p.] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
None of the reproductions is signed. The original block G carries the imprint, top left, 'In Venezia per Matthio pagano in Frezzaria al segno della Fede'. Pagano was probably not the woodblock-cutter but the printer and publisher.
References
M. Bury, The print in Italy 1550-1620 (2001), no.121; D. Rosand and M. Muraro, Titian and the Venetian woodcut [exhibition catalogue] (1976), p.281-3, no. 89; J.D. Passavant, Le peintre-graveur (1860-4), vol. 6, no.98.
A survey of pageantry was B. Holme, Princely feasts and festivals: five centuries (1988).
Summary Note
The original woodcuts reproduced here were probably intended to be displayed as one continuous sequence. They were lettered A-H and carried Latin captions identifying the persons and things represented: A. eight standards; B. six silver trumpets; C. ambassadors' servants and trumpets; D. servants of the Doge, and canons; E. the Patriarch, the white candle and ceremonial hat; F. the chair, the cushion; G. the Doge, the umbrella, ambassadors; H. senior officials.
The set may be viewed as a generic representation of a Dogal procession; but the standards in cut A are those of the Priuli, implying that the set represents either Doge Lorenzo Priuli (1556-9) or Doge Girolamo Priuli (1559-67).
Provenance
Purchased for RA Library in 1880 (see RA Annual Report for 1880, p. 42).
Binding Note
19th-century paper-covered boards, cloth-covered spine; the upper cover printed identically with the title leaf and carrying a printed label reading 'Edition de 100 exemplaires - N.' (to which the number '34' has been added in blue pencil in the Royal Academy's copy). Inside the upper cover is pasted a printed label, which reads, 'Di prossimo pubblicazione: La processione del Doge nella Domenica delle Palme impressa in Venezia per Mattio Pagan in otto grandi Tavole. Illustrazione di Federico Stefani. Venezia, Agosto 1880. Ferd. Ongania Edit.'