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245 1 0 $a Raccolta Di Statue Antiche E Moderne Data In Luce Sotto I Gloriosi Auspici Della Santita Di N.S. Papa Clemente XI. Da Domenico de Rossi. $b Illustrata Colle sposizioni a ciascheduna immagine Di Pavolo Alessandro Maffei Patrizio Volterrano E Cav. Dell'Ordine Di S. Stefano E Della Guardia Pontificia
260 # # $a In Roma $b nella Stamperia alla Pace con Privilegio del Sommo Pont. e licenza de' Superiori $c l'anno MDCCIV. [i.e. 1740?] $c [1704] [i.e. 1740?]
300 # # $a xii, [4] p., 170 columns on [85] p., [15] p., engr. dedic., engr. t.-pl., 162 pl.; $c 495 mm.
505 0 # $a Fly-title: Sposizioni Sopra le statue coll' indice delle materie che nella presente opera si contengono. - All' Erudito Lettore Paolo Alessandro Maffei - Indice Delle Statue - Sposizioni Sopra Le Statue [I- CLXI] - Sposizioni Del Frontespizio, E Degli Altri Ornamenti - Indice Delle Materie - Imprimatur; [Colophon] - [t.pl., engr. dedic.] - [Plates].
508 # # $a Pl. 129 is unsigned; all other plates and decorations are signed by draughtsmen and/or engravers. Draughtsmen were F. Aquila, N. Dorigny and R. v. Audenaert; the engravers, F. Aquila, P.S. Bartoli, C. Randon, N. Dorigny, G.B. de Poilly, R. v. Audenaert, F. Andriot, G. G. Frezza and F. de Poilly.

The name of the printer, Gaetano Zenobi, is given in the colophon.

Almost every plate carries the publisher's imprint of Domenico de' Rossi.

The publication is dedicated by Domenico de' Rossi to the Pope (Clement XI).
510 0 # $a RIBA, Early printed books, 3 (1999), no. 1999, p.1050-1.

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique: the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900 (1982).
520 2 # $a Most of the statues shown are ancient; but thirty-six plates show modern statues, by Bernini, Michelangelo, Giambologna, Fancelli, Andrea Lombardo, Lorenese, Baratta, Nocchieri, Algardi, Lorenzo de Credi, Duquesnoy and P. Ligorio. Some statues are shown from more than one angle. The Sposizioni describe 161 plates; the additional plate, numbered 162, shows a statue of Pope Paul IV ascribed to Pirro Ligorio. According to the RIBA catalogue the presence of this additional plate indicates that this set is from the 1740 reissue.
561 # # $a The upper right-hand corner of the fly-title is inscribed in ink, "P. Hoare 1808".

The back pastedown is inscribed in ink in the upper right-hand corner, "R D / Naples June 26 1733 / No 162".
563 # # $a The brown calf binding on this volume is in very poor condition. A title is just about visible on the spine, "Raccolta / Dei Statue / Antich E Moder".
653 # # $a Sculpture, Greek - Sculpture, Roman - Sculpture, Italian - Statues - Italy - Rome - History
653 # # $a Collections - Italy - Rome - 18th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century
700 1 # $a Rossi, Domenico de $e publisher
700 1 # $a Maffei, Paolo Alessandro $e contributor
700 1 # $a Zenobi, Gaetano $e printer
710 2 # $a Clement XI $e dedicatee