Hardcover
1990 · New York
by Bartsch, Adam von ; Walter L. Strauss ; Paoli Bellini and Richard W. Wallace
New York: Abaris Books, 1990. Hardcover. VG (Ex library with label neatly removed from inside front cover, no other marks). Brown cloth with gilt letters and lines on spine and front cover, 476 pp., 100+ BW illus. Part of a lengthy series of illustrated picture atlases presenting the reproduction of prints rendered by European masters. Once based primarily on the compilations created by Austrian scholar and artist Johann Adam Bernhard Ritter von Bartsch (1757-1821) in his 21-volume "Le Peintre Graveur." This volume addresses the work of the 16 Italian engravers (Bernardino Capitelli -- Bernardino Bassano -- Giovanni Andrea Podesta -- Giulio Carpioni -- Giacinto Gimignani -- Pietro Testa -- Carlo Tainaldi -- Gaspard Dughet (called Gaspard Poussin) -- Crescenzio Onofri -- Pietro del Po -- Teresa del Po -- Savator Rosa -- Bartolomeo Manini -- Meschini (Angelo Maria D'Eschini) -- Antonio Ugolino -- Giovanni Battista Pace.) whose work was illustrated in the previous volume. Uncommon.
(Inventory #: 158028)