Sélection Bibliorare
HAMILTON, Gavin, ed. [Schola italica picturae sive Selectae quaedam summorum e schola italica pictorum tabulae aere incisae cura et impensis Gavini Hamilton pictoris. Rome, Gavin Hamilton, 1773 plano
Estimation :
1800 / 2200
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
[Schola italica picturae sive Selectae quaedam summorum e schola italica pictorum tabulae aere incisae cura et impensis Gavini Hamilton pictoris. Rome, Gavin Hamilton, 1773 plano, 65,5 x 49,3 cm, later red leather, marbled paper on covers (locally discol.), gilt tooled flat spine titled "Piranes[e]/ 22/ Ecole italienn[e]" (sl. rubbed and stained), 40 pl. (some sl. brown. & fox., marg. tear on pl. 31). Good copy. Rare complete set (n. 1-40 incl. front., dated 1769-1773) printed on thick laid paper. Beautiful suite of reproductive plates consisting of an architectural front. after Michelangelo and 39 pl. engr. by Italian artists (J. Perini, D. Cunego, A. Capellan, J. Volpato, Tinti, etc.) after L. Da Vinci, A. Del Sarto, Parmigianino, Raphael, Correggio, Giorgione, Veronese, G. Reni, Guercino, the Carracci... after drawings by G. Hamilton. Hamilton (1723-1798) was a Scottish portrait and history painter, excavator and dealer in antiquities and old masters. He lived in Rome from 1742-48 as a pupil of Agostino Masucci and returned to Rome in 1756. He published at his own expense "Schola Italica Picturae" of which he sold the plates to Francesco Piranesi by 1780.
