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A catalogue of the prints contained in this collection : after the sketches and drawings of the late G.B. Cipriani / engraved by Richard Earlom.

Accession number
PML 196035
Creator
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
Published
London : Boydell, 1789.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 2014.
Notes
Engraved added title page: A collection of prints, after the sketches and drawings, of the late celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Esq. R.A. Engraved by Mr. Richard Earlom. Pubd. March 25th by Jno. & Josiah Boydell, No. 90, Cheapside London. No. 1.
First book printed by aquatint in England (see Abbey, Life in England, 199).
Portrait of Cipriani facing added title page.
Several plates printed with colors, one printed in red ink.
PML copy lacking title page and letterpress index of plates.
PML copy with some light foxing to first leaf and margins.
Description
[51] leaves of plates : chiefly ill., port. ; 51 cm.
Provenance
Swinton Colthurst Holland (1844-1922), armorial crest bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Jeffrey Mancevice, June 2014.
Binding
19th-century half calf over paper boards covered in marbled paper; rebacked and recornered.
Classification
Department