A Series Of Outlines, Consisting Of Seventeen Plates, From The Last Judgment, Painted By Michael Angelo Buonaroti, In The Sixtine Chapel, At Rome; Engraved By J. Stephanoff.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
05/882
Imprint
[S.l.]:: [s.n.],, (1811).
Physical Description
[1] f., [16] pl.: [1] vignette; 536 mm.
General Note
The sixteen unnumbered plates and the title-page vignette form a total of seventeen plates, as called for by the title.
Contents
[T.p.] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
Plate [3] is signed as engraved by J. Stephanoff; all others are unsigned.
No name of publisher or printer is given.
Summary Note
No publication-date is carried by the title page; but one plate ([3]) carries the date 1811.
Plate [3] shows an overview of the whole fresco; the other plates and the title-page vignette show details. The fresco was originally painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Palace between 1535 and 1541.
Provenance
Prince Hoare Bequest (1836).
Copy Note
The front pastedown carries a bookseller's ticket, which reads, 'Priestley & Weale's Establishment Of Works on the Fine Arts, No. 5, High Street, Bloomsbury, London'.
Last Judgment - Future life - Christian art and symbolism - Iconography
Paintings, Italian - Frescoes - Mural painting and decoration - Church decoration and ornament - Churches - Chapels - Palaces - Italy - Rome - Vatican City - Vatican Palace (Vatican City) - Cappelle Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century