Peintures Antiques De Vases Grecs De La Collection De Sir John Coghill Bart Publiées Par James Millingen De La Société Des Antiquaires De Londres, Et De L'Académie Archæologique De Rome.
Rome: Imprimé Par De Romanis, MDCCCXVII. Avec Permission.
Physical Description
[2], xx, 48 p., 52 pl. (nos. 50, 52 are dble.); 528 mm. (Broadsheet.)
Contents
[T.p.] - Avis De L'Editeur - Premiére (- Trosième) Lettre Addressée A M. Millingen Par M. Le Chever. Jean Gherardo De Rossi Traduite De L'Italien - Explication De Peintures De Vases Grecs Planches I.(-LII.) [with pl.] - Errata; Imprimatur - Table Générale Des Matières.
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed.
References
J. Scott, The pleasures of antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome (2003); A. Greifenhagen, 'Nachklänge griechische Vasenfunde im Klassizismus (1790-1840)', in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, new ser. 5:1 (1963), p.84-105.
Summary Note
The plates are outline drawings of images from ancient Greek vases, depicting myths or social customs.
Provenance
Acquired between 1817 and 1821. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1821.
Copy Note
Instead of pl. IV a second copy of pl. II. has been bound in.
Binding Note
19th-century half blue calf, brown papered boards; rebacked in 20th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Peintures De Vases Grecs - Millingen', spine lettered '1808'.
Mythology, Greek - Iconography
Greeks - Greece - Social life and customs - History
Vase-painting, Greek - Vases, Greek - Greece - History
Collections - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Catalogues - Art history - Italy - 19th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century