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Serie di ritratti dei granduchi e granduchesse di Toscana.

Title
Serie di ritratti dei granduchi e granduchesse di Toscana.
Publication
ca. 1650-1780.

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Additional Authors
  • Morozzi, Ferdinando.
  • Zocchi, Giuseppe, 1711-1767.
  • Dei, Giovanni Battista, 1702-1789.
  • Haelwegh, Adriaen, approximately 1637-
  • Allegrini, Francesco, 1729-
  • Gregori, Carlo Bartolomeo, 1702-1759.
  • Pazzi, Antonio, 1706-approximately 1766.
  • Preissler, Georg Martin, 1700-1754.
  • Verkruys, Theodor, -1739.
  • Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725.
  • Orsini, Ignazio.
  • Russell, Charles Howland, 1851-1921.
Description
1 album (ca. 160 leaves); 81 x 55 cm.
Summary
  • Collection of engraved portraits of members of the House of Medici and other rulers of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, from various mid-17th to late 18th-century sources. Includes illustrated genealogical tables, depictions of coins and portrait medallions, and other related material.
  • Includes engraved t.p. and many portraits from Chronologica series simulacrorum regiae familiae Mediceae centum expressa toreumis, published by Giuseppe Allegrini, Florence, 1761; title on engraved t.p. reads: Regiae familiae Mediceorum Etruriae principum effigies. This work contained portraits engraved by Adriaen Haelwegh, ca. 1670, and by Francesco Allegrini after Giuseppe Zocchi.
  • Includes plates from: Orsini, Ignazio. Storia delle monete de' Granduchi di Toscana, della Casa de' Medici e di quelle dell' augustissimo imperatore Francesco di Lorena come granduca di Toscana. Firenze : G.P. Giovannelli, 1756.
  • Includes 3 full-page hand-drawn and painted pictorial genealogical tables by Fernando Morozzi, dated 1776-1777; folding pictorial geneal. table (plate mark ca. 64 x 125 cm.) engraved by F. Allegrini after G.B. Dei, 1761; full-page engraved pictorial geneal. table.
  • Includes a group portrait around Grand Duke Ferdinand II, and a fireworks print recording the wedding celebration of Violante, duchess of Bavaria, and Ferdinando, grand prince of Tuscany, 1688.
  • Includes also ca. 25 leaves containing engraved portraits of prominent Florentines, e.g. Pope Clement XII, Francesco Guicciardini, Michelangelo, Boccaccio, Galileo, Amerigo Vespucci, Brunelleschi, Dante, Alberti.
  • Other engravers include Carlo Gregori, Antonio Pazzi, G.M. Preisler, Theodor Verkruys and Arnold van Westerhout.
  • In all, 261 ports. and 45 other prints. Prints are various sizes, mounted chiefly 1 or 2 to a leaf; some leaves include 5 or more smaller ports. Prints depicting coins and medallions are usually mounted 4 or more to a leaf, with ms. legends. Leaves containing prints are numbered 1-153, with several omissions; several blank leaves are not numbered.
Uniform Title
Chronologica series simulacrorum regiae familiae Mediceae centum expressa toreumis.
Alternative Title
Regiae familiae Mediceorum Etruriae principum effigies
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Engravings – Italy – 17th century.
  • Engravings – Italy – 18th century.
  • Drawings – Italy – 18th century.
  • Family trees – Italy – 18th century.
  • Portraits – Italy – 17th century.
  • Portraits – Italy – 18th century.
  • Portrait prints – Italy – 17th century.
  • Portrait prints – Italy – 18th century.
Note
  • Title from spine.
  • Items are cataloged separately in Print Coll. local files or marked as checked in published catalogs.
  • Gift of Library trustee Charles Howland Russell, Nov. 22, 1915; with his autograph on first leaf.
Language (note)
  • Legends chiefly in Latin; some in Italian.
Binding (note)
  • Modern green buckram. Upper joint worn and torn.
Call Number
MEB+++ 11-2812
OCLC
731262692
Title
Serie di ritratti dei granduchi e granduchesse di Toscana.
Imprint
ca. 1650-1780.
Language
Legends chiefly in Latin; some in Italian.
Binding
Modern green buckram. Upper joint worn and torn.
Local Note
Formerly classed in 3-AOM+++ (Russell, C.H. Regiae familiae Mediceorum Etruriae principum effigies)
Added Author
Morozzi, Ferdinando. Artist
Zocchi, Giuseppe, 1711-1767. Illustrator
Dei, Giovanni Battista, 1702-1789. Illustrator
Haelwegh, Adriaen, approximately 1637- Engraver
Allegrini, Francesco, 1729- Engraver
Gregori, Carlo Bartolomeo, 1702-1759. Engraver
Pazzi, Antonio, 1706-approximately 1766. Engraver
Preissler, Georg Martin, 1700-1754. Engraver
Verkruys, Theodor, -1739. Engraver
Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725. Engraver
Orsini, Ignazio. Storia delle monete de' Granduchi di Toscana, della Casa de' Medici e di quelle dell' augustissimo imperatore Francesco di Lorena come granduca di Toscana.
Russell, Charles Howland, 1851-1921. Donor
Added Title
Chronologica series simulacrorum regiae familiae Mediceae centum expressa toreumis.
Research Call Number
MEB+++ 11-2812
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