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Descrizione della raccolta di stampe di S.E. il sig. conte Jacopo Durazzo, patrizio genovese, ec. ec., esposta in una dissertazione sull'arte dell'intagio a stampa
Etched by: Giovanni Vitalba (Italian, 1738–1792?)
After: Giovanni David (Italian, 1749–1790)
Author: Bartolommeo Benincasa (Italian, 1745–about 1825)
Printer: Giambattista Bodoni (Italian, 1740–1813)
After: Giovanni David (Italian, 1749–1790)
Author: Bartolommeo Benincasa (Italian, 1745–about 1825)
Printer: Giambattista Bodoni (Italian, 1740–1813)
1784
Place of Publication: Parma, Italy
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with one etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Overall: 30 x 22 x 1.5 cm (11 13/16 x 8 11/16 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Thomas Gaffield
Accession NumberBR1416
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Parma: Reale Stamperia, 1784
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet II, 909; Brooks, Bibliographia di edizioni Bodoniane, 263
Description(Parma: dalla Reale Stamperia, 1784) Quarto; 34 leaves; contemporary gilt-stamped brown calf.
Frontispiece portrait of collector in etching and aquatint
Frontispiece portrait of collector in etching and aquatint
ProvenanceOwnership inscriptions dated 1788 ("regalo del autore a Venezia") and 1826; Thomas Gaffield, by whom given to MFA Library in 1895, transferred to Print Department, 1904.