Ceremonies, costumes, portraits and genre / Mark McDonald.
Cassiano dal Pozzo's print collection was unique in its scope and organisation. Some 3,000 prints are known, in nine albums and many loose impressions mainly divided between the British Library and the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Cassiano (1588-1657) and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Po...
Uniform Title: | Paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Prints ;
Series C, pt. 1. |
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Language: | English |
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London :
Royal Collection Trust and The British Library, in association with Harvey Miller Publishers,
2017.
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Series: | Paper museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Prints ;
pt. 1. |
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Physical Description: | 3 volumes (xi, 1,001 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. |
Format: | Book |
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Cassiano dal Pozzo's print collection was unique in its scope and organisation. Some 3,000 prints are known, in nine albums and many loose impressions mainly divided between the British Library and the Royal Library at Windsor Castle. Cassiano (1588-1657) and his younger brother Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689) did not commission printmakers to engrave plates (as they did drawings), buying instead what was available from the flourishing printmaking industry of the time. The material they collected was essentially documentary, and they organised the collection by subject matter: costumes, religious processions and ceremonies, tombs and catafalques, the history of St Peter's, architecture, topography, maps and military engagements, portraits, social and humorous subjects, and so on. This first part of the catalogue presents ceremonies, costumes, portrait and genre prints. A remarkable proportion of the prints are not to be found in the existing literature, and many constitute additions to the known works of major printmakers. Indeed Cassiano's collection has been described as 'so far outside the common range of print collectors both in the seventeenth century and today that a very high proportion of its contents is excessively rare and will only with great difficulty be found elsewhere'. |
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Call Number: | N5273.2.D35 M33 2017 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9781909400788 1909400785 9781909400757 1909400750 9781909400764 1909400769 9781909400771 1909400777 |