[A great variety of original designs of vases, figures, medalions, frizes, pilasters, pannels and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and Grotesque Style; executed in the most finished manner. … The whole designed, and etched by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, who has long applied his attention to the ornaments of the ancients, and has had the honour of designing and painting rooms, cielings [sic], staircases and ornaments, for many of the nobility and gentry of this kingdom. ...
Michelangelo Pergolesi (fl.1777-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1777 - 1787
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 3103486.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
55 leaves of plates ; fol. With bound in prospectus: Proposals for publishing by subscription … London, 1788. Some plates are dated in contemporary manuscript. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "J: Uxbridge" [i.e. Jane Paget, née Champagné, Countess of Uxbridge (1746-1817)]. Binding: eighteenth-century quarter leather calf, with marbled paper over boards; gold tooled spine; twentieth-century round paper label on upper cover, with ms. price[?]: 4.-.
Makers and roles
Michelangelo Pergolesi (fl.1777-1801)