Architetture E Prospettive Dedicate Alla Maestà Di Carlo Sesto Imperador De' Romani Da Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Suo Primo Ingegner Teatrale, Ed Architetto, Inventore Delle Medesime.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

03/2500

Imprint

Parisiis: Apud Basan, [1740]

Physical Description

Engr. t.-pl., 50 pl.; 566 mm.

Responsibility Note

Plates 18-20 are unsigned. All others are signed as designed and drawn by I.G. Bibiena, and engraved by I.A. Pfeffel, Andreas & Ioseph Schmuzer, L. Zucchi or Salomon Kleiner.

References

National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, III (1998), 37; Royal Indtitute of British Architects, British Architectural Library ... Early printed books, 2 (1995), no. 1165; Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 136, p.116-7.

J. A. Hatfield, The relationship between late Baroque architecture and scenography, 1703-1778 [dissertation] (Ann Arbor, UMI, 1984).

Summary Note

This work was also published from Augsburg in the same year.

Provenance

Acquired by 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).

Binding Note

18th-century marbled-papered boards; rebacked and recornered in 20th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Architetture, E Prospettive'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Architecture - Perspective - Austria - Germany - History - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century

Contributors