Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1770 and 1790?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.191
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
Description:
Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image., Printmaker Giovanni Battista Cecchi and intermediate draftsman Carlo Bozzolini identified in the Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., This print was apparently part of the "Serie di ritratti de' pittori che se stessi di dipinsero esistenti nella R. Galleria di Toscana," which has been dated 1770-1790. See Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., Engraved border is also printed on a separate sheet and mounted around the sheets with the image and title; for another impression with the exact same arrangement of sheets, see: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. Nr. 57533. For an impression lacking these additional sheets, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10968., and Sheets trimmed within plate marks.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' studios, Sculpture, and Miniatures (Paintings)
Life of the celebrated painter Masaccio and Vita del celebre pittore Masaccio
Description:
Caption title, engraved., With 4 preliminary letterpress pages of text; imprint from p. iv., Plates engraved by Patch after Masaccio, Fra. Bartolommeo, Giotto, Text and title in English and Italian., and One of 40 copies.
Portrait of Lady Sofia Farmor in the form of a medal and Mediceae veneris sublimem interroget artem, qui Sophiae charites pingere, et ora velit ...
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Four lines of Latin text printed in letterpress below plate: Mediceae veneris sublimem interroget artem, qui Sophiae charites pingere, et ora velit. Virtutem et patriae studium meditetur; amores noverit hic Sophiae, noverit ingenium., Publication information from that of the volume in which the plate appeared., Plate from: Raccolta di varie canzoni sopra diversi leggiadri soggetti. : A sua eccellenza Mylady Sofia Farmor. In Firenze : Nella stamperia di Bernardo Paperini, 1740., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge., Mounted on page 144 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., Annotation in pencil below plate and above Latin text: Lady Sopia Fermour. Privat., and For further information, consult library staff.
Laurence Sterne stands on the left facing Death who has just come in the door (right) carrying an hourglass and carrying a walking stick. On the wall behind him is a map of the fortifications of Namur and on the table by his side, a statue of Diana of the Ephesians under a glass dome (bell glass) as well as a feather pen in an ink stand. Below the table is a jackboot. Between the two columns of verse below the image in a cartouche is a butterfly fluttering over a torch, a reference to the soul
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Date from manuscript note in Horace Walpole's hand., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Five lines from Tristam Shandy below image in English and Italian, etched below image: and when Death himself knocked at my door, ye had him come again, and in so gay a tone, of careless indifference, did ye doit, that he, doubted of his commission. There must certainly be some mistake in thy matter, quoth he ..., In lower left corner: Price half-crown., Temporary local subject terms: Literature: Aristotle's works -- Ovid -- A sentimental journey by Laurence Sterne -- Emblems: mundane egg -- Reference to plagiary -- Machine for tearing books., and Annotated by Horace Walpole below plate line: Sterne, author of Tristam Shandy, done at Florence.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 and Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.
Subject (Topic):
Death, Hourglasses, Skeletons, and Staffs (Sticks)
