Napoli,: Dalla Stamperia E Cartiera Del Fibreno Largo S. Domenico Maggiore No. 3., 1832.
Physical Description
[2], xxxvi, 380, [4] p., 21 pl.; 216 mm. (Octavo.)
Contents
[T.p.]; Avis Aux Lecteurs - [Dedic.] - Introduzione - [Text] - Spiegazione Delle Tavole - Appendice - Indice Primo (-Quinto) - [Approbation].
Responsibility Note
The plates are unsigned, but the 'Avis Aux Lecteurs' is by the baron de Clugny de Nuis and states that he engraved the 'série de Bambocciate, au nombre de 16, à la manière de lavis'.
The work is dedicated by Andrea de Jorio to Federico Guglielmo, Principe Ereditario di Prussia.
References
A. de Jorio, Gesture in Naples and gesture in classical antiquity (2000).
D. McNeill, ed., Language and gesture (2000); J. Bremmer and H. Roodenburg, A cultural history of gesture (1992). An earlier Italian study of gesture was G. Bonifaccio, L'Arte De' Cenni (1616).
Summary Note
Most plates show contemporary Neapolitan gestures; two show ancient Greek drawings.
Most are aquatints.
Reproductions
A reprint was published in 1964 (Napoli: Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio); an English translation, in 2000.
Copy Note
The front pastedown carries the binder's ticket, reading, 'Bound By J. Rowbotham, Caoutchouc Bookbinder, 19, Newman Street, Oxford Street'.
Binding Note
19th-century half green morocco, green marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Mimica Degli Antichi.' and 'R.A.'
Subject
Gesture - Semiotics - Nonverbal communication - Sign language - Mimesis - Expression - Greeks - Romans - Italians - Greece - Italy - Rome - Naples - History
Pictorial works - Aquatints - Italy - 19th century