The Masterpieces Of The Museo Del Prado - One Hundred And Ten Photogravures Directly Reproduced From The Original Paintings In The National Gallery At Madrid

Museo Nacional Del Prado (Madrid)

RA Collection: Book

Record number

05/1360

Author

Museo Nacional Del Prado (Madrid)

Variant Title

Museo Del Prado

Imprint

Published By The Berlin Photographic Company 133, Bond Street, London, W.: (1897.)

Physical Description

8 p., 110 pl.; 685 mm. (Broadsheet.)

[Half-title, t.p.] - List Of Pictures - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

The plates are unsigned. Each carries the imprint of the publisher, 'Photographische Gesellschaft Berlin'.

Summary Note

A title variant appears on the half-title: 'The Museo Del Prado'. No publication-date is given on the title-page, but the publication-date of 1897 is carried by all plates, apart from pl. 38, which is undated. The List Of Pictures states that 'The pictures are numbered in chronological order'; but in the List they appear in alphabetic order of painter. None is captioned, but each is briefly described in the List. They include works by Coello (2 pl.), Correggio, Dürer (4 pl.), Van Dyck (3), Goya, El Greco, Jordaens, Memling, Moro (3), Murillo (12), Poussin, Raphael (8), Rembrandt, Ribera, Rubens (8), Tintoretto, Titian (20), Velasquez (37), Veronese (2), Van Der Weyden and Zurbaran.

Binding Note

The plates are loose within a leather-bound portfolio with protective flaps. 19th-century red morocco, upper cover gilt-stamped with arms of Spain within a gilt border.

Name as Subject

Diego Velázquez
Titian
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo
Peter Paul Rubens
Raphael
Museo Nacional Del Prado (Madrid)

Subject

Paintings, European
Collections - Art galleries - Spain - Madrid - 19th century
Catalogues - 19th century
Pictorial works - Photomechanical prints - Photogravures - Armorial bindings - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

Diego Velázquez, source artist
Titian, source artist
Bartolomé Estebán Murillo, source artist
Peter Paul Rubens, source artist
Raphael, source artist
Berlin Photographic Company, publisher