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Title(s):
Il perfetto cavaliere : opera corredata di stampe miniate rappresentanti le varie specie de' cavalli, incominciando dal selvaggio, co' loro differenti mantelli, ed accompagnata dalla Storia naturale del cavallo scritta da Buffon; dalla Scuola di cavalleria di Guerinière, contenente la conoscenza, l'instruzione e la conservazione del medesimo, con nuove aggiunte tratte da più recenti autori; da alcune osservazioni sul tipo di bellezza fissatogli da più celebri artisti sì antichi che moderni, da tutti i migliori squarci con cui celebrollo la poesia : ed infine da notizie storiche de' più famosi cavalli.
Additional Title(s):
Collezione d'incisioni appartenenti all'opera del Perfetto cavaliere
Published/Created:
Milano : Coi tipi de' fratelli Sonzogno, MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([8], 567 p.; [2] p., 24, 52 leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF309.25 P47 1825+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Most of the engravings are by Antonio Locatelli, after Carle Vernet. Engravings also by Gallo Gallina, after Pelagio Palagi.
Dedication letter signed by Antonio Locatelli.
Vol. 1 has preliminary half-title.
Vol. 2 consists of plates and has separate t.p. reading: Collezione d'incisioni appartenenti all'opera del Perfetto cavaliere. Milano. Presso l'editore Antonio Locatelli, MDCCCXXVII.
Plates consist of 34 hand-colored softground etchings, 34 plates of softground etchings (not colored but many with aquatint shading), 1 plate of a hand-colored etching, 8 plates of etchings (not colored).
Fox, C.G. The Fairman Rogers Coll. on the horse and equitation, 489
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 124
Includes bibliographical footnotes.
BAC: British Art Center copy has circular red ink-stamp reading "Bibliotheque de Boisnoir Lt. Colonel A. Gerhardt" repeated at intervals throughout both volumes. Bound in brown marbled paper over boards.
Subject Terms:
Bibliotheque de Boisnoir -- Provenance.
Fratelli Sonzogno -- Printer.
Gerhardt, A., Lt. Colonel -- Provenance.
Horsemanship.
Horses -- Diseases.
Horses -- Pictorial works.
Horses.
Locatelli, Antonio -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1825.
Etchings -- 1825.
Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1825.
Soft-ground etchings -- 1825.
Soft-ground etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1825.
Contributors:
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707–1788. Histoire naturelle. Italian. Selections.
La Guérinière, François Robichon de, 1688–1751. Ecole de cavalerie. Italian. Selections.
Vernet, Carle, 1758–1836, ill.
Palagi, Pelagio, 1775–1860, ill.
Locatelli, Antonio, engraver.
Gallina, Gallo, 1796–1874, engraver.
Pozzi, Giovanni.
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