Notices Of The Life And Works Of Titian.

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/3643

Imprint

London:: Sold By John Rodwell, New Bond-Street, And Colnaghi, Son And Co. Pall Mall East., 1829.

Physical Description

[8], 149, [3], xciv p., frontis. (port.); 257 mm. (Quarto.)

Contents

[Frontis., t.p., dedic.] - [Note] - [Text] - Genealogical table Of The Part Of The Family Of Vecelli In The Line Of Titian ... - Arrangement Of The Subjects In The Following Catalogue - Descriptive Catalogue Of Engravings After The Works Of Titian. From The Bibliothéque Du Roi At Paris, 1827; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The author's name is not given, but the dedication is by A. Hume.

The frontispiece is captioned, 'Titian, After an Etching by Agostino Carracci'.

The printer is named on the title-page verso and in the colophon, 'London: Printed by William Nicol, Cleveland-row, St. James's.'

The work is dedicated by A. Hume to Charles Lord Farnborough.

Provenance

The front loose endpaper is inscribed in ink, 'Bequest of Sr. Aug. W. Callcott.'

Binding Note

19th-century red cloth-covered boards; torn white paper spine-label lettered '[...?] The Life And Works Of Titian'.

Name as Subject

Subject

Painters - Painting - Italy - Veneto - Venice - History - 16th century
Art history - Biography - Catalogues - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

John Rodwell, bookseller
Paul Colnaghi, bookseller
Dominic Charles Colnaghi, bookseller
William Nicol, printer
Sir Abraham Hume 2nd Bt., compiler
Charles Long, Baron Farnborough, dedicatee
Agostino Carracci, source artist
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA, previous owner, donor
Colnaghi and Company, bookseller