Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Fra^co. Mazzola detto il Parmigianino. Tolti dal Gabinetto Di Sua Eccellenza Il Sig^re. Conte Alessandro Sanvitale - Incisi Da Benigno Bossi Milanese Stuccatore Regio, e Professore della Reale Accademia delle belle Arti

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/699

Imprint

Parma: MDCCLXXII.

Physical Description

[1], 29, [2] pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 404 mm.

[T.-pl.] - [Pl. 1: dedic.] - [Pl. 2-29] - [Approvazione:] Noi Reale Accademia Parmense di Pittura ... - [Plate].

Responsibility Note

The title-plate, pl. 1 (engraved dedication) and pl. [30] (engraved Approvazione) are unsigned. Plates 2-29 are all signed as drawn by Franco. Mazzola Parmigiano and engraved by B. Bossi. The last plate (pl. [31]) is signed as engraved by Gius. Patrini. The title-plate vignette is unsigned.

The dedication is by 'Benignus Bossius' to 'Alexandro Comiti Sanvitali'. The last plate [31], 'Prospetto della Facciata di S. Pietro in Parma ...', is dedicated by Petitot to D. Guglielmo Du Tillot.

References

Reproduction techniques were surveyed in S. Lambert, The image multiplied: five centuries of printed reproductions (1987).

Summary Note

A publication-date of 1771 is carried on two plates (22, 29).

This is one of many reproductions of paintings and drawings by Parmigianino published in the eighteenth century.

Plates 2-29 reproduce drawings of human figures, clothed and unclothed. The last plate (unnumbered) is captioned, 'Prospetto della facciata di S. Pietro in Parma d'invenzione, e disegno di E.A. Petitot ...'.

Binding Note

19th-century half calf, brown paper-covered boards; black morocco spine-labele lettered 'Disegni Originali Di Parmigianino', spine lettered '1772'.

Name as Subject

Parmigianino
Alessandro Sanvitale Count

Subject

People - Women - Men (male humans)
Drawings, Italian - Italy - 16th century - Mannerism
Collections - Italy - Emilia Romagna - Parma - 18th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century

Contributors

Parmigianino, source artist
Benigno Bossi, engraver
Alessandro Sanvitale Count, dedicatee
Giuseppe Patrini, engraver
Ennemond Alexandre Petitot, source artist