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Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne. [With:] – Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne. [With:] Recueil de divers monumens anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de l’Italie. Rome: chez Bouchard & Gravier, de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, 1761, 1763, 1770.
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BARBAULT, Jean (c.1705-1766)
Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne. [With:] – Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne. [With:] Recueil de divers monumens anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de l’Italie. Rome: chez Bouchard & Gravier, de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, 1761, 1763, 1770.
An internally fine set of Barbault’s elegant views of the architectural highlights of ancient and modern Rome, complete with the very rarely found third volume, published posthumously, all in fine impressions. The text, written in French, describes the monuments depicted in the adjacent plates. In these descriptions, Barbault not only references the work of historians like Pliny the Elder and Bernard de Montfaucon, but also other artists’ renderings of the same monuments, particularly those by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Barbault had previously worked with Piranesi, contributing to 14 plates to Piranesi’s Antichità Romane (1756), and the two artists worked with the same publisher, Bouchard et Gravier. Barbault not only designed the vast majority of the images, but also engraved at least 86 of them, including the vignettes on the title page and dedication page. While Barbault seems to have executed many of the sculptural and relief fragments, many of the large architectural views were etched by Domenico Montagu, who was responsible for some 52 images. Montagu is also responsible for most of the etchings in Barbault’s “Les plus beaux edifices des Rome moderns,” published by Bouchard et Gravier in 1763. The third volume, published posthumously, consists of a visual survey of ancient objects found in different parts of Italy; It includes engravings of objects and architectural details such as lamps, vases, paterae, sarcophagi, and friezes. The work was prepared from Barbault’s drawings and issued in Rome in 1770, four years after his death and is rarely found together with the other two volumes. Brunet I, 696; Graesse I, 289, (first work); Fowler 37; RIBA 184: Berlin Kat. 2712. Rossetti I, Rome, The Guide Books, G1223, G-1227, G-1254.
3 volumes, folio (535 x 390mm). Half-titles, engraved vignettes on titles, 44 double-page engravings in first vol., 73 single-page plates (44 of which with 2 separate impressions) in second vol, and 92 single-page plates, some with deckle edges, in third vol. (with a total of 148 illustrations, 104 of which are numbered, and a further 18 vignettes in the text), woodcut decorative initials (half-title and title of vol. I loose, light spotting and browning, rare marginal stains and marks, closed tear restored on M1 in vol. 1). 19th-century half calf over marbled boards by R. J. Mitchell and Sons of Westminster, their label on pastedown (boards loose, spines chipped with significant loss of leather, extremities worn). Provenance: Pasolini (bookplate on pastedown).
Les plus beaux monuments de Rome ancienne. [With:] – Les plus beaux edifices de Rome moderne. [With:] Recueil de divers monumens anciens répandus en plusieurs endroits de l’Italie. Rome: chez Bouchard & Gravier, de l'Imprimerie de Komarek, 1761, 1763, 1770.
An internally fine set of Barbault’s elegant views of the architectural highlights of ancient and modern Rome, complete with the very rarely found third volume, published posthumously, all in fine impressions. The text, written in French, describes the monuments depicted in the adjacent plates. In these descriptions, Barbault not only references the work of historians like Pliny the Elder and Bernard de Montfaucon, but also other artists’ renderings of the same monuments, particularly those by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Barbault had previously worked with Piranesi, contributing to 14 plates to Piranesi’s Antichità Romane (1756), and the two artists worked with the same publisher, Bouchard et Gravier. Barbault not only designed the vast majority of the images, but also engraved at least 86 of them, including the vignettes on the title page and dedication page. While Barbault seems to have executed many of the sculptural and relief fragments, many of the large architectural views were etched by Domenico Montagu, who was responsible for some 52 images. Montagu is also responsible for most of the etchings in Barbault’s “Les plus beaux edifices des Rome moderns,” published by Bouchard et Gravier in 1763. The third volume, published posthumously, consists of a visual survey of ancient objects found in different parts of Italy; It includes engravings of objects and architectural details such as lamps, vases, paterae, sarcophagi, and friezes. The work was prepared from Barbault’s drawings and issued in Rome in 1770, four years after his death and is rarely found together with the other two volumes. Brunet I, 696; Graesse I, 289, (first work); Fowler 37; RIBA 184: Berlin Kat. 2712. Rossetti I, Rome, The Guide Books, G1223, G-1227, G-1254.
3 volumes, folio (535 x 390mm). Half-titles, engraved vignettes on titles, 44 double-page engravings in first vol., 73 single-page plates (44 of which with 2 separate impressions) in second vol, and 92 single-page plates, some with deckle edges, in third vol. (with a total of 148 illustrations, 104 of which are numbered, and a further 18 vignettes in the text), woodcut decorative initials (half-title and title of vol. I loose, light spotting and browning, rare marginal stains and marks, closed tear restored on M1 in vol. 1). 19th-century half calf over marbled boards by R. J. Mitchell and Sons of Westminster, their label on pastedown (boards loose, spines chipped with significant loss of leather, extremities worn). Provenance: Pasolini (bookplate on pastedown).
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