Description of Bolognas annual Porchetta festival (""Festa della porchetta""), held in 1736. Full-size folded sheet engraved illustration depicting fall of the city of Faenza (occupied by the Lamberazzi) to the Bolognese Guelfs in ca. 1280.
Alternative Title:
Nella festa popolare fatta in Bologna dagl'illustrissimi ed eccelsi signore anziani consoli, e confaloniere di gistizia del quarto bimestre dell'anno 1736.
Description:
Description of Bologna's annual Porchetta festival ("Festa della porchetta"), held in 1736. Full-size folded sheet engraved illustration depicting fall of the city of Faenza (occupied by the Lamberazzi) to the Bolognese Guelfs in ca. 1280; signed "Domenico Tagliatti invent., e pitore del teatro" and "[AAS] delineò & incise" (i.e. Antonio Alessandro Scarselli) , with caption: "Nella festa popolare fatta in Bologna dagl'illustrissimi ed eccelsi signore anziani consoli, e confaloniere di gistizia [sic] del quarto bimestre dell'anno 1736 ...", Imperfect: Beinecke copy has plate only, wanting text., and Title supplied by cataloger.
Publisher:
Lelio dalla Volpe?,
Subject (Geographic):
Bologna (Italy)--Social life and customs--18th century.
Subject (Name):
Dalla Volpe, Lelio, 1685-1749, printer., Scarselli, Antonio Alessandro, 1684-1773., and Tagliatti, Domenico.
A sketchbook of drawings of antiquities, with brief notations about the objects depicted, in multiple hands. Horace Walpole describes the volume in his 1774 Description of Strawberry Hill as "a book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities." These very fine, detailed drawings in a variety of media -- graphite, pen and ink, wash, and watercolor -- are in some cases mounted onto the leaves, in other cases, drawn directly onto the rectos
Alternative Title:
Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, etc. from Greek and Roman antiquities and Book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities
Description:
Pietro Santi Bartoli, Italian painter, etcher and engraver, active in Rome., Title from Hazen., No text; a few notes in Italian and Latin., Title from f. [1r] of item. "The title, distributed over six lines on the frontispiece ... was riddled with gaps -- "SO...TI [or "SC...TI"]/D... / VAR ... /COSE / ANTI / CHE"--which I suggest should be read as "Scritti di varie cose antiche" (Notes on various ancient objects)". From Irène Aghion's unpublished research. Aghion also identifies the artist as Bartoli., Cited in Allen T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 2371 (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1969) and titled: Drawings from coins, medals, bronzes, &c., In his Description of Strawberry Hill (1774), Horace Walpole cites the volume as: A book of drawings of vases, bas-reliefs, and other antiquities., Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool, with gold tooled borders and blind-stamping on boards. 'Antiquities. Original drawings' in gold on spine; gilt edges. Binder's stamp on verso of front flyleaf., With the armorial bookplate of Earl of Derby, 1775-1851 and press mark 26. B ; and with the bookplate of Horace Walpole (BP1)., Numbered pages bound in the following sequence: 1-2, 4-5, 3, 6-7, 9-10, 8, 11-16, 18-20, 17, 22-149., Blank leaves: 2-5, 7-8, 16-17, 65. Page 21 missing., and Rebound in blue morocco by Hodgson of Liverpool. Bookplate 1. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763. Bookplate of Lord Derby.
Subject (Topic):
Art, Greek, Art, Roman, Classical antiquities in art, Antiquities, Roman, Greek, Bas-reliefs, Coins, Medals, and Vases
