Author: Patin, Charlotte Catherine, author; Desbois, Dorigny, N. et N.R. Cochin, J.J. Thourneysen fils, J. Juster, H. Vincent d'après G. Reni, Véronèse, C. Calliari, Poussin, N. Cochin Titien, Vinci, A. Vicentino, Tintoret, Bassan, Carrache, Le Guerchin, Contarin
Title: Pitture Scelte E Dichiarate Da Carla Caterina Patina. Parigina, Accademica. First Edition
Description: Venezia: Appresso Pietro Marteau ; Dall'Hertz, In Colonia [i.e. Venice?], Si vendono in Venezia, 1691. Folio. 24.8 x 37.5cm.. [8] 13-222, collates a4 A-K4 chi2 L4, contemporary mottled calf, spine repaired with new endpapers; engraved additional allegorical title-page, letterpress title-page printed in red and black and incorporating engraved vignette, 40 engraved plates after Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Paolo Veronese and others (several double page, a few also folding), engraved armorial bookplate (Frederick Keppel, motto ‘Ne cede malis’), variable damp-staining chiefly to lower margins, marginal soiling to plate facing p. 40.. NOTE: First edition in Italian of an early example of art criticism written by a woman, published the same year as a Latin edition, printed in Padua and titled Tabellae selectae ac explicitae. The work comprises engravings of some 40 paintings mainly by Italian Old Masters, each with an accompanying essay by Patin; there is also a portrait of the author's family... RA Collection:: The forty plates are plates not conjugate with the signatures of the letter-press text, but (although they carry no page numbers) have been included in the pagination, each single plate being treated as 2 pages, each double as 4 pages, each double and folded as 6 pages. Pages 207-10 of the letterpress text do not carry page-numbers. Contents [Add. engr. t.pl. t.p. dedic.] - Prefazione - Indice Delle Pitture - [Text and plates]. The added engraved title-plate is signed as designed by Dorigny and engraved by Iuster. Almost all plates are signed or captioned with the name of the source-artist. Most are also signed with the name of the draughtsman (N.R. Cochin, N. Cochin, H. Vincent) and engraver (N.R. Cochin, M(art). Desbois, I.I. Thourneijser (or Thourneyser) fil. N(atal). Cochin, Ioseph Iuster, H. Vincent).. The title-page vignette is signed as painted by Guido Rhenius and engraved by Desbois... The work is dedicated by Carla Caterina Patina to the Republic of Venice. Summary Note Plate [31] carries the publication-date of 1690... This work was also published the same year at Padua under the Latin title, Tabellæ Selectæ Ac Explicatæ .. The text includes (p.[207-10]) a reprint of 'Oratio De Liberata Civitate Vienna .. A Carola Catharina Patina' (first published in 1683). The added engraved title-plate shows three female figures representing Christianity, Painting and Literature. The plates show eleven paintings by Veronese, ten by Titian, four by unnamed painters, two by Annibale Carracci, and one each by Poussin, Leonardo, Varotari, Vicentino, Carlo Calliari, Tintoretto, G. Bassano, Guercino, L. Carracci, G. Olbenio and N. Jouvenet. Plates [1]-[33] are of Christian subjects; [34]-[37], of pagan myths; plate [38] shows the Liberation of Vienna in 1683; plate [39], the Family of Thomas More by G. Olbenio [Holbein]; [40], the Patina Family by N. Jouvenet. The text also indicates the then location of each picture OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 81609984 Notes: Signatures: a² A-K? chi² L? Added engraved title page designed by Nicolas Dorigny; engraved title vignette (Madonna and child); engraved head-piece; fifty-nine leaves of plates included in the pagination A collection of engraved reproductions of paintings by da Vinci, Titian, Hans Holbein, Annibale Caracci, Veronese, Guido Reni, and others, with narrative commentary by Charlotte Catherine Patin The imprint is false--Cf. BM STC Italian. .

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