IX hasce tabulas melanographicas ad architypos totidem celeberrimi Titian factas . (quorum singuli 12 pedes alti, & 8 circiter lati, in Corio deaurato depicti, Parergis, hujusce Tituli ad instar, ipso Auro illuminatis, Ornati sunt) Nobilissimæ Pinacothecæ, in Ædibus suis Augustissimis de Blenheim, in Agro Oxoniensi, partem Apparatûs non indignam dicat, dedicat, consecrat celsitudinis suæ observantisssimus Johannes Smith.
John Smith (Daventry 1652 - Northampton 1743)
Category
Books
Date
1708 - 1709
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141878
Summary
Bibliographic description
[10] plates . all ill.. . fol.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century half leather binding; marbled paper over boards; six raised bands; spine gilt ruled.
Makers and roles
John Smith (Daventry 1652 - Northampton 1743) Titian (Pieve di Cadore 1488/90 - Venice 1576)