Collectanea antiquitatum Romanarum quas centum tabulis aeneis incisas et a Rodulphino Venuti Academico Etrusco Cortonensi notis illustratas exhibit Antonius Borioni.
Ridolfino Venuti (1705-1763)
Category
Books
Date
1736
Materials
Place of origin
Rome
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3213301
Summary
Bibliographic description
XII, 80, [2] p., 103 [i.e. 104] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6299. Provenance: manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "Α-β'." [i.e. Alpha-beta' = Greek number 1-2]. Binding: eighteenth-century full mottled calf; sewn onto four sewing supports; six raised bands; gilt roll pattern along board edges; gold-tooled spine, with roll and stamp decoration; brown goatskin label with gilt title on spine. Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Ridolfino Venuti (1705-1763), author Borioni, Antonio, author Francesco Bartoli (1675-1730), engraver (printmaker) Giovanni Battista Calandrucci (d. c.1749), artist Vincenzo Franceschini (1680-1744), engraver (printmaker) Girolamo Riossi (1682-1762), engraver (printmaker) Sorello, Miguel de, engraver (printmaker) Vitoria, Vicente, engraver (printmaker) Arnold van Westerhout (1651 - 1725), engraver (printmaker) Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752), artist Jakob Frey the Elder (1681 - 1752), engraver (inciser)