Illmo. Viro Dno. I.F. Detroy. Regi. Xmo A Sanct. Consiliis Ordinis. Regii. S. Mich. Equiti. Torquato. Regiae. Artium. De Urbe Academiae. Praefecto Vasa. A. Se. Inventa Atq. Studii Causa. Delin. Et. Incisa D.V.C. Iacobus. Saly. In. Praed. Academia Alumnus S.H.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/1004

Variant Title

Vasa A Se Inventa Atq. Studii Causa Delin. Et Incisa
Vasi

Imprint

Physical Description

T.pl., 30 pl.; 395 mm.

Responsibility Note

All plates, including the title-plate, are signed as designed and engraved by J. Saly. The signature on the title-plate gives also the date '1746'.

References

S. Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France (1974), p.375, pl.291-3.

V. Thorlacius-Ussing, 'Etudes sur l'activité de Saly avant son voyage au Danemark', in From the collections of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek (1942), III, p.281-312.

Summary Note

Each numbered plate shows an ornamental vase.

Saly drew and engraved these designs in Rome, where he was a student at the French Academy from 1740 to 1748. They were afterwards republished in Paris.