"One of two prints issued with Hogarth's treatise "The Analysis of Beauty": a ballroom scene with dancers ranging from elegant to ungainly; in the lower left corner is a pile of tricorne hats; forming a border around the main image are 41 compartments with diagrams relating to the text; the image is numbered throughout"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved above image., State from Paulson., and Bound in Horace Walpole's copy of Analysis of beauty along with State 3 of Plate 1. Also with the subscription ticket "Columbus breaking the egg", first state, trimmed to the image, mounted on the verso of the t.p.
Woodblock depicting scene of the miracle of Christ stilling the wind and waves
Description:
Accompanied by: Christmas card from "the Wilsons," dated 1930, containing a print made from the woodblock and attributing the block to a craftsman in the Netherlands, circa 1480., Date uncertain., Bookplate: Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow., and Binding: modern cloth case.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Jesus Christ
Subject (Topic):
Miracles, Art, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Christian art and symbolism
Manuscript on paper of a pocket-size codex containing discussions of painting miniatures in manuscripts. On ff. 1r-30v Mariani provides a list of colors and the recipes for each color; in the remainder of the text he discusses techniques for painting landscapes in perspective. The second portion of the treatise (ff. 84r-95v) is, according to the title-page, the work of Antonello Bertozzi (fl. ca. 1590). The focus of this section is on painting watercolor portraits rather than on painting landscapes. On ff. 97v-113v, miscellaneous additions in at least 3 hands, dated 1612-1627
Description:
In Italian., Script: Written in upright humanistic bookhand for arts. 1 and 2 and for the headings in art. 3. Main text in a gently sloping italic script. Additions on ff. 95v-113v by several hands, some very cursive and poorly formed., Simple headpieces, in brown pen, for beginning of some chapters., and Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Rigid vellum case with a gold-tooled spine: "Mariani Della Miniatur [sic]".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Mariani, Valerio, 1899-1982.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Technique, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medieval, Miniature painting, Italian, and Workshop recipes
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a letter from Wilkie asking Lady Holland to accept his gift of "two small and imperfect sketches, made from recollection, on my way back from Falmouth, of the two Portraits by Vandyke, of the Earl of Warwick and the Earl of Holland." He explains that the portraits will interest Lady Holland for "having been painted in Holland House." The letter is accompanied by the two watercolor sketches mentioned in the letter, which are signed and dated 1834
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845., Holland family., and Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Letters, Portrait painting, Watercolor painting, and Social life and customs
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Latin recipes, beginning and end missing. 2) Italian recipes
Description:
In Latin and Italian., Script: Latin recipes copied by one hand (A) in Italian Gothica Hybrida Currens under Humanistic influence (Uncial and Half Uncial d). Italian recipes (Hand B) are in Italian Gothica Hybrida Libraria, under stronger Humanistic influence (ampersand and two forms of d). Hand A opens every page with the invocation "Yhesus Maria", hand B with the invocation "Yhesus"., and Binding: paper binding, 20th century. On the front board a small parchment label with the eighteenth century title "Pittori" (this is repeated in the margins of ff. 11r and 12r).
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN 2018 238: Paperbound. Stamp: Bibl. Gvst C. Galletti Flor. and Imperfect: Folded map only. Carta dei viaggi fatti da Cristoforo Colombo per l'Oceano Atlantico ... P. Binaghi inc. per L'opera del par Amati. Ricerche Storico-Crit. 1830.
Publisher:
Coi tipi di Giovanni Pirotta
Subject (Topic):
Art, History, Printing, Science, Literature, History and criticism, and Inventions
Description based on: no. 1 (juin 1967); cover title., Editors: Julien Blaine, Jean Clay., Description based on: No 1 (juin 1967); title from cover., and Latest issue consulted: No 5/6, published in 1970?
BEIN J714 D86 +525: Illegible bookplate [partially torn]. Inscription: L. Ordlinger[?]. Illegible inscription on t.p. Stamp on t.p.: Biblioteka [?]ska. Portrait of Albrecht Dürer pasted on t.p., BEIN 1971 Folio 561: Manuscript waste used on binding. No. 1 of 4 titles bound together., Place and date of printing from colophon, leaf Q3r; lacking in some copies (cf. Bohatta, no. 2; Meder, Ausg. B). VD 16 gives printer as Hieronymus Andreae (i.e. H. Andreae, known as Formschneyder), known to have founded the Fraktur type used in this and other Dürer works; for discussion, cf. "Buchkundlicher Exkurs" by Alvin Jaeggli, in the Zurich, 1966 facsimile ed. of Unterweisung der Messung., "1. Deutsche Ausgabe ... Ausgabe A"--Meder., Title page in earliest (no. 1a) of 3 variant states described by Bohatta., Signatures: A-N⁶ O-Q⁴ (Q4 blank)., Cancels on C5v, fig. 36, lower right; K1r, fig. 26., Additions to ills. 59 and 61 (sig. P4v and Q1r) on fold. slips attached to the illus., Illustrations: 2 prints : woodcut ; image 14 x 15 cm., 14 x 19 cm. Subject: Draftsman drawing a seated man; draftsman drawing a lute. Latter signed in block with monogram and dated 1525. References: Meder 268-269; Tietze 939-940; Panofsky, E. Albrecht Dürer, 361-362; Strauss, W.L. Albrecht Dürer, woodcuts, 201-202. -- Ca. 148 prints : woodcut ; double-page (1), full-page or smaller. Numbered as figs. 1-50 (book 1), 1-36 (book 2), 1-62 (books 3-4); some errors in numbering. Chiefly diagrams; include several designs for architectural details and monuments (e.g. figs. 15-17, book 3: a triumphal column; a satirical monument for the Peasants' War, 1525; a monument for a drunkard). References (monuments): Meder XXVI; Tietze 938 a-d; Panofsky 454; Strauss 205 a-c. Two figs. (59 and 61, book 4) are extended by means of flaps, on which the observer of the constructions is portrayed. References: Tietze 938 e-f. -- Ca. 34 prints : woodcut ; full-page (8) or smaller. Diagrams for and depictions of monumental alphabets (roman and Textur), comprising illustrated instructions for each roman letter (leaves K2r-L3v); full-page diagrams for and depictions of roman alphabets (leaves L4r-L6r); and full-page diagram for and depictions of Textur alphabets (leaves M2r-M3r)., Ill. perhaps cut by the presumed printer, Formschneyder; cf. Panofsky, I, p. 46; Jaeggli., and Errata: leaf Q3v.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Topic):
Measurement, Art, Technique, Geometrical drawing, Lettering, Alphabets, and Perspective
