liber veritatis collection prints after di gellée claude (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Second Edition. Small Folios, Three Volumes. In Good plus condition. Bound in half contemporary red morocco with paneled spine, elegant gilt decoration on spine, two dark green labels. Marbled paper boards and endpapers. All edges gilt. With some general shelfwear, including boards with moderate wear to edges and corners, light wear to joints, and light wear overall. Slight bowing to boards. Text blocks have light wear to gilt edges. Light age-toning and foxing throughout. Ex-libris (partially removed or worn) on front pastedown of all three volumes. Complete with all 300 mezzotint plates printed in sepia plus frontispiece portraits of Claude, Earlom, and John Boydell. MU Consignment. Shelved in Room A Oversized. A collection of 300 etchings based on works by French artist Claude le Lorrian (Claude Gelee). Widely considered a landmark in the reproduction of master artworks (and a precursor to modern catalogue raisonnés), this is the second edition, a reprint of the first from 1777-1819 with etchings from the original plates. The drawings by Claude Lorrain were done by Richard Earlom, using etching for Claude's pen lines and mezzotint for the ink washes. The table directory lists sales of individual etchings up to 1843, helping to date this edition. 1375376. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 3 volumes folio 17x12 inches, leather bound in period half red morocco over marbled boards, with the spines neatly relaid. Period marbled endpapers. Illustrated with 2 mezzotint portraits of Claude Lorrain and Earlom, 1 stipple-engraved portrait of John Boydell, and 300 ETCHINGS WITH MEZZOTINT, all printed in bistre by Earlom after Claude Lorrain. Text and plates complete. UNUSUALLY FINE CLEAN PLATES without any of the usual spotting. Peabody Trust bookplates and some stamps removed from versos. The 300 etchings of drawings by Claude Lorrain are pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and the work was called Liber Veritatis - Book of Truth- for the purpose of identifying Lorrain's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master- (Abbey). First published between 1777 and 1819, the present set is a 19th century edition, with the text and plates printed on unwatermarked wove paper. Lovely clean DECORATIVE bucolic plates. Bibliography- Abbey Life 200, Brunet III:1169, Cohen-De Ricci 242.

3 volumes, small folio. (16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches). 2 mezzotint portraits (of Claude and Earlom), 1 stipple-engraved portrait of John Boydell. 300 etchings with mezzotint, all printed in bistre, all by Earlom after Claude. Expertly bound to style in half russia over period marbled paper covered boards "The first complete edition, with the engravings [sic.] in the best and final state, embodying the important drawings from the great English collections of the period" (Abbey). "This capital work, a landmark in the history of the reproduction of master drawings, is . an important forerunner of later publications on [Art Collections]. It contains 300 etchings of drawings by Claude Lorrain, pastoral, mythological, and biblical subjects, and was called Liber Veritatis [Book of Truth] for the purpose of identifying Claude's genuine works from forgeries, or from drawings wrongly attributed to the master. They are all printed in a warm bistre colour to aid the resemblance . The catalogues in each volume give a comprehensive description of each drawing, indicating also for whom they were executed, which pictures were painted from them, and the ownership at the date of publication of the book - in short, a real catalogue raisonné" (Abbey). Abbey Life II 200; Lowndes II, p.1398; Lewine 325; Cohen-de-Ricci 242; Wessely, Earlom NR 149ff; Thieme-Becker x, 283 and xiii 369.

No Binding. Condizione: Fine. Twelve mezzotint engravings after drawings by Claude Lorraine (1600-1682). Liber Veritatis; or a collection of prints after the original designs.

3 vols. London: Boydell & Co, 1777 (vols 1 & 2) , & Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1819. Folio, matching later half calf gilt, edges uncut; Vol I: mezzotint frontis portrait of Claude, pp. 14 (incl. title), 100 numbered mezzotint plates printed in sepia; Vol II: pp. 5 (incl. title), plates 101-200; Vol III: mezzotint frontis portrait of Earlom, pp. (viii)(incl. title), stipple portrait of Boydell + 100 numbered mezzotints. Complete. Boards worn, some spotting of plates. A fine collection of 300 mezzotints engraved by Earlom after the works of Claude Gellée (c. 1600-82), better known as Claude (of) Lorraine, a painter who helped popularise landscapes. While still in his thirties his client list included Pope Urban VIII. However this fame led to a number of works being mis-attributed to him, often fraudulently, so in 1636 he started cataloguing his works by making tinted outline drawings of each painting he completed, with the name of the purchaser marked. Six sets of this 'Liber Veritatis' or 'Book of Truth' were sent around Europe, allowing the authenticity of Claude's paintings to be checked. One set came into the art collection of the 2nd Duke of Devonshire, and it was this example that was copied and published by John Boydell, with the text listing the titles, original owners and present owners (if known). The publication must have been a success because the third volume of mezzotints was published over 40 years later and 15 years after Boydell's death, this time from drawing in other collections besides the Duke of Devonshire's. By 1819 Earlom, the engraver of all three hundred landscapes, was 76. In order to reproduce the drawings accurately Boydell turned to mezzotint, a method not often used for landscapes but, printed in sepia, mimicked the pen and wash originals effectively. The result was described by Col. Abbey as 'a landmark in the history of reproduction of master drawings'. ABBEY: Scenery 200; the Duke of Devonshire's 'Liber Veritatis' sketchbook is now in the British Museum.