Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. 2 Voumes. Year 1950. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The four fifteenth-century books of drawings in the Department are not fully catalogued or illustrated here. To have done so would have doubled the size and cost of this work and three of them have already been reproduced in facsimile elsewhere. The four sheets of the Picture Chronicle which were acquired after Colvin’s publication of the volume in 1898 are however reproduced and in addition the subjects of the drawings in the Bellini and Zoppo volumes and in the Picture Chronicle are fully indexed with references to the facsimile publications by Goloubew (Gol.) Dodgson (Dod.) and Colvin (Col.) respectively. Since the fourth book of mechanical draw- ings by Francesco di Giorgio has not hitherto been published a summary list of its contents is included with references to reproductions of versions in the Ashburnham Codex now in Florence. The Catalogue has been compiled by myself and Philip Pouncey Assistant- Keeper in the Department. Some two-thirds of the entries and the revision of much of the remaining third are due to him. John Gere Assistant-Keeper has also given very great help in the later stages in the laborious task of revision and proof- correction and the indexes are substantially his work. The project of cataloguing the Italian drawings in the Department goes back to the ‘eighties of last century when Louis Fagan Assistant from 1869 to 1894 prepared a complete alphabetical inventory of the Italian drawings of all periods. This was continued to include acquisitions made as late as 1891 but it has little value as a critical catalogue. (OS)