Proposals for publishing by subscription, (consisting of two volumes, containing twenty numbers each,) lately dedicated, by permission, to his grace the late Duke of Northumberland,. ... a great variety of original designs of vases, figures, medallions, friezes, pilasters, pannels, and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and Grotesque style, ... with several pieces drawn by ... J.B. Cipriani, ... and engraved by ... F. Bartolozzi, ... The whole designed and etched by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, ...
Michelangelo Pergolesi (fl.1777-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 3103486.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
1sheet ; 45cm (1o). Bound into a set of the 55 printed designs, which are wholly engraved, and issued without title-page (fol); the engravings are variously signed and dated. With contemporary ink manicule and manuscript additions. Provenance: pastedown inscribed "J: Uxbridge" [i.e. Jane Paget, née Champagné, Countess of Uxbridge (1746-1817)]. Binding: eighteenth-century half 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)