Acque-Forti Dei Tiepolo - Collezione Di 100 Tavole Riprodotte da C. Jacobi
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/3490
Variant Title
Tiepolo. Le Acque-Forti
Imprint
Ferd. Ongania Edit., Venezia: MDCCCLXXIX.
Physical Description
[8] p., [92] leaves carrying 100 pl. (some dble.); 564 mm.
Contents
[Half-t., t.p.] - Tiepolo. Nota Dell'Editore - [Plates] - [Colophon].
Responsibility Note
The title-page border is signed as made by A. Prosdocimi.
The printer of the plates is named again in the colophon: 'C. Jacobi Eseguì In Eliotipia A Spese Di Ferd. Ongania Venezia Via St. Agostino Anno MDCCCLXXX'.
The text printer is named on the half-title verso: 'Venezia, 1879. - Tipografia Emiliana.'
References
A. Rizzi, L'Opera grafica dei Tiepolo: le acqueforti (English version, The etchings of the Tiepolos) (both 1971); H.D. Russell, Rare etchings by Giovanni Battista and Domenico Tiepolo [exhibition catalogue] (1972).
Summary Note
The half-title reads, 'Tiepolo. Le Acque-Forti.' The publication-date of 1879 is given on the title page and on the half-title verso, but the date of 1880 is given in the colophon.
A note printed on the half-title verso gives the print-run: 'Edizione di 100 esemplari numerati. N ...'.
Giambattista Tiepolo's etchings consist of the Capricci and the Scherzi di fantasia. Those of his son Giandomenico Tiepolo consist of the Via Crucis, Idee pittoresche sopra la Fugga in Egitto and Raccolta di teste. Giandomenico's brother Lorenzo made nine prints, including the etching of Sta. Thecla freeing Este from the plague. The first plate reproduces a portrait of G.B. Tiepolo engraved by Alexan. Longhi after his own painting.
Provenance
The verso of the front loose endpaper is inscribed in pencil, 'S.A.H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
Copy Note
The half-title verso is inscribed in ink, '64' - the number of this exemplar in the print-run of one hundred.
Binding Note
19th-century half brown morocco, marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Acque-Forti Dei Tiepolo' and 'R.A.'
Etchings - Europe - History - 18th century
Art history - Italy - 19th century
Pictorial works - Photographs - Heliotypes - Photomechanical prints - Italy - 19th century