Italian Sculptors: Being A History Of Sculpture In Northern, Southern, And Eastern Italy. By Charles C. Perkins. ... With Etchings By The Author, And Engravings On Wood From Original Drawings And Photographs.
Most plates are signed as engraved or drawn and engraved by 'CCP'. Nos. 5, 6, 8 are signed as drawn by Ufer and engraved by CCP. Two of the additional plates are signed as drawn by H. de Triqueti and engraved by CCP.
Some in-text illustrations are signed 'JG', or as engraved by Sotain or F. Simon.
The printers' name is given on the half-title verso and in the colophon: 'London: Printed By Spottiswoode And Co., New-Street Square And Parliament Street'.
References
S. Eliot, Memoir of the life of Charles Callahan Perkins (1887).
S.B. McHam, Looking at Italian Renaissance sculpture (1998); J. Pope-Hennessy, The study and criticism of Italian sculpture (1990).
Summary Note
The half-title reads, 'Sculpture In Northern, Southern, And Eastern Italy.'
Perkins's Tuscan Sculptors had appeared in 1864.
Binding Note
19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Italian Sculptors Perkins', 'R.A.' and '1868'.
Subject
Sculptors - Sculpture - Italy - History
Art history - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century