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Fragments choisis dans les Peintures des Palaix et des Eglises de l’Italie. Paris: [1770-1775].
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SAINT-NON, Jean Claude Richard abbé de (1727-1791)
Fragments choisis dans les Peintures des Palaix et des Eglises de l’Italie. Paris: [1770-1775].
A fine copy of this beautiful, entirely engraved work, with very fine early aquatint engravings, transcribing the work of Jean Honoré Fragonard and Hubert Robert. The work comprises 190 plates in six parts: Rome (2 parts), Bologna (one part) printed in sepia, Venice (one part), Naples (2 parts). The second series of Naples is entirely the work of Saint-Non except for the 20th plate, which was drawn by Clodion. All other plates in the series were drawn by Fragonard, with the exception of 5 of the 6 titles and 3 other plates drawn by Hubert Robert, and the plate drawn by Clodion. One of these plates is mischievously signed 'il divo Frago del.'. Saint-Non had the foresight to engrave the location in the margin of each reproduced work. As Gordon Ray stated 'nowhere else are so many of what might be called aquatint incunables, dating as they do from the late 1760s and early 1770s, to be found between two covers'. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914, I, 68 (of the first edition); Brunet, V, col. 56; Cohen de Ricci, col. 93.
6 suites bound in one volume, quarto (258 x 189mm). 190 aquatint plates (6 titles and 184 plates ) by Saint-Non after Fragonard and Roberts (very minor marginal spotting in places, light age toning). Contemporary Italian ‘papier dominotée’ of red anchors, red and blue circles on a ground of blue dots, over thin boards (spine and lower side a little soiled); contained in modern tan morocco folding box.
Fragments choisis dans les Peintures des Palaix et des Eglises de l’Italie. Paris: [1770-1775].
A fine copy of this beautiful, entirely engraved work, with very fine early aquatint engravings, transcribing the work of Jean Honoré Fragonard and Hubert Robert. The work comprises 190 plates in six parts: Rome (2 parts), Bologna (one part) printed in sepia, Venice (one part), Naples (2 parts). The second series of Naples is entirely the work of Saint-Non except for the 20th plate, which was drawn by Clodion. All other plates in the series were drawn by Fragonard, with the exception of 5 of the 6 titles and 3 other plates drawn by Hubert Robert, and the plate drawn by Clodion. One of these plates is mischievously signed 'il divo Frago del.'. Saint-Non had the foresight to engrave the location in the margin of each reproduced work. As Gordon Ray stated 'nowhere else are so many of what might be called aquatint incunables, dating as they do from the late 1760s and early 1770s, to be found between two covers'. Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914, I, 68 (of the first edition); Brunet, V, col. 56; Cohen de Ricci, col. 93.
6 suites bound in one volume, quarto (258 x 189mm). 190 aquatint plates (6 titles and 184 plates ) by Saint-Non after Fragonard and Roberts (very minor marginal spotting in places, light age toning). Contemporary Italian ‘papier dominotée’ of red anchors, red and blue circles on a ground of blue dots, over thin boards (spine and lower side a little soiled); contained in modern tan morocco folding box.
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