Raccolta Di 120 Stampe, che rappresentano, Figure, ed Abiti di varie Nazioni secondo gli Originali, e le Descrizioni dei piu celebri recenti Viaggiatori, e degli Scopritori di Paesi nuovi Dedicata a S. E. Il Signor Tommaso Degli Obizzi Marchese del S. R. I. e di Orciano Conte ec. ec. ec. in argomente di grata riconoscenza Teodoro Viero D. D. D. Parte Prima (Seconda)
Ap. Theodorum Viero, Venetiis Cum Privil. Exc. Sen.: Anno 1783 (-1785)
Physical Description
2 vols. [v.I: [2] p., t.-pl., [120] pl. - v.II: [2]p., t.pl., [165] pl. In some copies the plates are coloured.]; 440 mm. (Broadsheet).
Contents
Vol. I: [T.pl. (incl. dedic.)] - Agli Amatori delle bell'Arti, e della moderna Storia; Indice [listing 120 pl.] - [Plates]. - Vol. II: [T.pl. (incl. dedic.)] - Indice della Seconda parte [listing 120 pl.] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
No plate is signed by draughtsman or engraver; but in Volume I plate 19 (a portrait of James Cook) names 'Gio. Chisor' as source-artist, and twenty-three of the plates of Turkish subjects name the source-artist, Francis Smith.
Each plate carries the publisher's imprint of T. Viero.
The title-plate of Volume I incorporates Viero's dedication to Tommaso Degli Obizzi; that of Volume II his dedication to 'Andrea Del S.R.I. nLib: Bar: de Fin, Signore di Chersano Fiumicello, Kleindorff'.
References
Lipperheide, Katalog Der Freiherrlich Von Lipperheide'schen Kostümbibliothek (repr. 1963), no. 39, p.32-4; R. Colas, Bibliographie Générale Du Costume (1933; repr.), no. 3007, col. 1076.
Summary Note
The plates are captioned in Italian and French.
Those in Volume I show persons of Italy (1-15), Europe (16-25), Turkey (including Greece, Balkans, Middle East and north Africa) (26-97), Asia (98-105) and the south Pacific (106-120).
Those in Volume II show persons from Italy (1-21), Europe (including Scotland) (22-37), the Russian empire (38-80), Asia and Turkey (81-98), the Americas (99-111), and various orientals (112-120). The additional plates in Volume II (plates [121-165]) show persons of various origins.
Provenance
Ordered to be purchased on 10 October 1788 (see RA Council Minutes II, 63). Purchased from Francesco Sastres for £12 12s. on 3 November 1788 (see Sastres' bill for 'Books ordered by Mr. Wilton for the use of the Royal Academy' dated 3 November 1788).
Copy Note
In Vol. I the first fifty-one plates have been numbered 1-51 in ink above the top margins.
Binding Note
Originally bound by John Miller in half calf for 14s. (see his bill dated 10 November 1788). Re-cased in 1996 in half calf over brown paper-covered boards, retaining the original red morocco spine-labels lettered 'Raccolta D'Abiti Di Varie Nazioni', and with new green morocco spine-labels lettered 'Vol. I (II)'.
Subject
Costume - Dress - Europe - Asia - Africa - America - Pacific Region - History
Art history - Italy - 18th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 18th century