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100 1 # $a Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
245 1 0 $a Diverse Maniere D'Adornare I Cammini Ed Ogni Altra Parte Degli Edifizi Desunte Dall'Architettura Egizia, Etrusca, E Greca Con Un Ragionamento Apologetico In Difesa Dell'Architettura Egizia, E Toscana Opera Del Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi Architetto. $b Divers Manners of Ornamenting Chimneys And All Other Parts Of Houses Taken From The Egyptian, Tuscan, and Grecian Architecture With An Apologetical Essay In Defence Of The Egyptian And Tuscan Architecture By John Baptist Piranesi Knight And Architect. Differentes manieres D'Orner Les Cheminées Et Toute Autre Partie Des Edifices Tirées De L'Architecture Egyptienne, Etrusque, Et Greque Avec Un Discours Apologetique En Faveur De L'Architecture Egyptienne, Et Toscane Par Le Chevalier Jean Baptiste Piranesi Architect.
246 3 # $a Divers Manners Of Ornamenting Chimneys And All Other Parts Of Houses
246 3 # $a Differentes Manieres D'Orner Les Cheminées Et Toute Autre Partie Des Edifices
260 # # $a In Roma $c MDCCLXIX. $c [1769] $b Nella Stamperia Di Generoso Salomoni Con Licenza De' Superiori.
300 # # $a [4], 30, [2], 31-35, [1] p., etch. dedic., 2, 1, [67] [i.e. 68] pl.; $b illus.; $c 538 mm. (Broadsheet).
500 # # $a The first two plates, facing p. 21, are numbered 'Tavola I' and 'Tavola II'; the third, facing p.31, is numbered 'Tavola I'. The text is followed by a further 68 plates on 67 sheets. In the Royal Academy's copy more than half of these are unnumbered, and the other thirty are not bound in in the order of the numbers engraved on them. They appear as follows: [4 blanks], 27, [2 blanks], 34, 42, 38, 1, 31, 22, 18, 13, [1 blank], 14, [1 blank], 15, 16, [1 blank], 19, [6 blanks], 20, 21, 24, [1 blank], 25, 26, 28, [1 blank], 29, 30, 32, [1 blank], 33, 35, 36, [1 blank], 39, [1 blank], 41, 43, 44, 46, [17 blank].
505 0 # $a [Engr. dedic. (dble.), t.p., dedic.] - Ragionamento Apologetico / An Apologetical Essay / Discours Apologètique [with 3 plates] - Imprimatur - Indice / Index / Table - [Plates].
508 # # $a The dedication plate and all but four of the other plates are signed as designed and engraved by Piranesi. The headpiece and tailpiece are unsigned.

Both dedications (engraved and printed) are from Piranesi to Giovambatista Rezzonico.
510 0 # $a National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, 4 (2000), 100; RIBA, Early printed books, 3 (1999), no. 2556; Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the complete etchings, ed. J. Wilton-Ely (1994), 815-887; J. Wilton-Ely, Piranesi [exhibition catalogue] (1978), 224-269, 276-279; A.M. Hind, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1922 repr. 1978), 86; H. Focillon, Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1918 repr. 1964), 854-926.

On eighteenth-century interest in Egyptian styles see: Egyptomania [exhibition catalogue] (1994); The inspiration of Egypt: its influence on British artists ... 1700-1900 [exhibition catalog] (1983); R. Wittkower, 'Piranesi and eighteenth-century Egyptomania', in Studies in the Italian Baroque (1975), p. 259-73.
520 2 # $a In the text Piranesi argues for an Etruscan or Egyptian origin for decoration.

The plates of the chimneys (several showing two chimney-pieces) are followed by plates showing various items of furniture (sideboards, clocks, vases, candelabra &c.), sedan-chairs and coaches. Several plates show chimney-pieces in Egyptianising taste, and include two which show not chimneys but the Egyptianising wall-decorations executed for the Caffè degli Inglesi. The latter were not to everyone's taste - the British painter Thomas Jones describing them as 'fitter to adorn the inside of an Egyptian sepulchre than a room of social conversation'. The unsigned tail-piece is full of satiric references to Bertrand Capmartin de Chaupy's Découverte de la maison de campagne d'Horace (1767-9).
561 # # $a Acquired between 1769 and 1802. Recorded in A Catalogue Of The Library In The Royal Academy, London (1802).
562 # # $a The Index has been bound in in the middle of the Ragionamento, between pages 30 and 31.
563 # # $a 18th-century mottled calf, the upper cover gilt-stamped with royal arms of Britain and 'R.A.'; rebacked in 20th century, red and green morocco spine-lables lettered 'Cammini Antich Di Cora Candelabra Piranesi', spine lettered 'R.A.' Bound with Piranesi's Antichità di Cora (1764), Trofei Di Ottaviano Augusto and Candelabri.
600 1 4 $a Capmartin de Chaupy, Bertrand $t Découverte de la maison de campagne d'Horace
653 # # $a Chimneys - Interior Decoration - Decorative arts - Furniture - Sedan chairs - Italy - 18th century - Egyptian Revival
653 # # $a Decorative arts - Egypt - Italy - Tuscany - Egyptians - Etruscans - History
655 # 4 $a Designs - Pattern books - Italy - Rome - 18th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Armorial bindings - Great Britain - 18th century
700 1 # $a Rezzonico, Giovanni Battista $e dedicatee
700 1 # $a Piranesi $e draughtsman $e engraver
852 8 # $d 1802: 15-0-08; 1821: 15-0-08.