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A collection of etchings : by that inimitable artist, Stefanino della Bella, comprising in number one hundred and eighty pieces ... To which is prefixed a biographical memoir of the artist / by Thomas Dodd.

Accession number
PML 145710
Creator
Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664.
Published
London : H.R. Young, 56, Paternoster-Row, 1818.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Includes Thomas Dodd's "The life of Stephen della Bella" (22 p.), followed by 180 etchings printed on the recto of 97 sheets; the etchings were evidently issued prior to the London edition in Paris by Basan, ca. 1740, without the introductory biographical essay by Thomas Dodd, with the first etching here retaining the French title: Recueil de Divera Grissonemena Têtes, Animaux, Friser, Marines, Paysager e autrea Sujeta de Caprice Inventés e Gravés par Steph ... Della Bella ... Se vend à Paris chés Basan.
"J. M'Creery, Printer, Black-Horse-Court, Fleet-Street."--Colophon, p. 22.
Description
22 p., [97] leaves of plates : ill. (etching) 37 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt and blind.
Classification
Department