Accession number
PML 77722.2
Creator
Curti, Francesco, 1610-1690.
Published
Rome : Gio. Jacomo de Rossi formis Romae alla Pace all'insegna di Parigi, [16--]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of; Mr. Robert Goelet and Mr. Lucien Goldschmidt.
Notes
A series of 20 engravings by Curti of anatomical and character studies intended to instruct students in the principles of drawing, after drawings comprising a drawing book by Guercino.
A later state of Curti's engravings after Guercino's drawings, the plates evidently restruck and issued some time in the mid- or later seventeenth century by printer/publisher Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691), with his imprint at the foot of the frontispiece plate and the name of the dedicatee changed from the Marquis Francesco Montecuccoli to Monsignor Giulio degli Oddi.
With a frontispiece plate with Hercules fighting the Hydra, and at left "All'Illmo et Revmo Sige Pron Colendmo / Monsige Giulio degli Oddi / Gio. Domenico Rossi D.D.D."; with "Gio Fran.co Barb. da Cent inv." at lower left, "Gio. Jacomo de Rossi formis Romae alla Pace all'insegna di Parigi" at bottom center, and "Fran.co Curti fec. et del." at lower right.
A later state of Curti's engravings after Guercino's drawings, the plates evidently restruck and issued some time in the mid- or later seventeenth century by printer/publisher Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691), with his imprint at the foot of the frontispiece plate and the name of the dedicatee changed from the Marquis Francesco Montecuccoli to Monsignor Giulio degli Oddi.
With a frontispiece plate with Hercules fighting the Hydra, and at left "All'Illmo et Revmo Sige Pron Colendmo / Monsige Giulio degli Oddi / Gio. Domenico Rossi D.D.D."; with "Gio Fran.co Barb. da Cent inv." at lower left, "Gio. Jacomo de Rossi formis Romae alla Pace all'insegna di Parigi" at bottom center, and "Fran.co Curti fec. et del." at lower right.
Description
[20] prints : engravings ; plate mark: 187 x 238 mm or smaller; sheets: 217 x 324 mm
Summary
Artist's copy book featuring a series of heads of different ages and types of subjects.
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