Details
CARRACCI, Annibale (1560-1609, artist) and Carlo CESIO (engraver). Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma del Sereniss. Duca di Parma etc. Rome: Monaldini al Corso, [n.d.]
Oblong half-sheets (348 x 582mm and smaller). Engraved title-page and 46 plates tipped in on 24 sheets, 5 others by Cesio, De Marteau and Giomignoni, and a chiuroscuro woodcut by J.B. Charles loosely inserted at end. (Title-page lightly spotted, browned, and with dampstaining to inner margin, many plates affected by light marginal dampstaining and some spotting, some plates trimmed to plate marks, others trimmed affecting image.) Late 18th-century calf-backed boards (extremities worn, lightly scuffed).
This album appears to have been put together with a decorative effect in mind. Plates 18, 19, 29 and 30 have been re-arranged to make for a more pleasing lay-out of composition and form within the album. Sold not subject to return.
Oblong half-sheets (348 x 582mm and smaller). Engraved title-page and 46 plates tipped in on 24 sheets, 5 others by Cesio, De Marteau and Giomignoni, and a chiuroscuro woodcut by J.B. Charles loosely inserted at end. (Title-page lightly spotted, browned, and with dampstaining to inner margin, many plates affected by light marginal dampstaining and some spotting, some plates trimmed to plate marks, others trimmed affecting image.) Late 18th-century calf-backed boards (extremities worn, lightly scuffed).
This album appears to have been put together with a decorative effect in mind. Plates 18, 19, 29 and 30 have been re-arranged to make for a more pleasing lay-out of composition and form within the album. Sold not subject to return.
Provenance
Probably acquired by William, 2nd Lord Bolton (1782-1850).
Listed in the 1905 Inventory of Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954).
Thence by descent.
Listed in the 1905 Inventory of Hackwood.
By descent until sold in 1935 with Hackwood to William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879-1954).
Thence by descent.