A Collection of Eighty Self-Portraits of Artists, from: Ritratti Originali de Pittori Esistenti Nella Reale Galleria de Firenze

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Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838), after Various Artists
A Collection of Eighty Self-Portraits of Artists, from: Ritratti Originali de Pittori Esistenti Nella Reale Galleria de Firenze
eighty engravings in colour with contemporary hand-colouring, 1791-96, very good impressions from the edition of one hundred, each mounted on blue paper laid down to card with the engraved borderlines (as issued), published by Niccolo Pagni and Guideppe Bardi, Florence, generally in good condition, within a folio box
Image 290 x 185 mm. (and similar)
Sheet 405 x 270 mm. (and similar)
Box 440 x 330 x 80 mm.
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Lot Essay

This lot comprises plates 1 to 80 from the series, including self-portraits of: Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Giorgio Vasari, Bartholomeus Spranger, Lavinia Fontana, Annibale Carracci and Sofonisba Anguissola.

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