Raccolta Di Stampe Rappresentanti I Quadri Più Scelti De' Signori Marchesi Gerini Tomo Primo
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2281
Imprint
In Firenze.: MDCCLIX., Nella Stamperia Moückiana. Con Approvazione.
Physical Description
[ii], xxxxvi, frontis., 40 pl. (8 dble.); 483 mm. (Broadsheet).
Contents
The forty plates are preceded by descriptions of the paintings and the frontispiece (p.ix-xxxxvi) and the 'Avviso dello stampatore (p. i-vii).
Summary Note
Although the title-page is in Italian only, the text is in French and Italian in parallel.
The plates show forty paintings from the Gerini family collection, by Carlo Dolci, B. Franceschini, P. Batoni, F. Albani, Raphael, Rubens, Veronese, Ann. Carracci, Cigoli, Guercino, Ribera, O. Marinari, Guido Reni, Vandyck, Ag. Carracci, Titian, A. Caroselli, G.M. Crespi, Andrea del Sarto, A. Allori, Rembrandt, L. Cranach, B. Carducci, F. Solimena, S. Conca, Salvator Rosa, M. Cerquozzi, J. Courtois, Cortona, C. Ferri and 'un autore incognito'.
Provenance
Acquired by 1802. Recorded in Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).