Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1770 and 1790?]
Call Number:
770.00.00.191
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in the foreground
Alternative Title:
Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
Description:
Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image., Printmaker Giovanni Battista Cecchi and intermediate draftsman Carlo Bozzolini identified in the Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., This print was apparently part of the "Serie di ritratti de' pittori che se stessi di dipinsero esistenti nella R. Galleria di Toscana," which has been dated 1770-1790. See Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue., Engraved border is also printed on a separate sheet and mounted around the sheets with the image and title; for another impression with the exact same arrangement of sheets, see: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. Nr. 57533. For an impression lacking these additional sheets, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10968., and Sheets trimmed within plate marks.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792,
Subject (Topic):
Artists, Artists' studios, Sculpture, and Miniatures (Paintings)
Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
1826.
Call Number:
826.00.00.92
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the remains of the Roman Temple of Serapis, also known as The Serapeum, just north of Pozzuoli, Italy
Description:
Title from text below image. and Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire.
published as the act directs Mayth [sic] 25, 1780.
Call Number:
780.05.25.02
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Artist and printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Sitter identified in British Museum catalogue as possibly Gaetano Manini, painter, of Milan, Italy, or Magnini, a picture dealer.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Mountebanks; Medicine chests.
Publisher:
apud Nic. Cavalli
Subject (Topic):
Dentistry, Teeth, Extraction, Quacks & quackery, Pain, Medicines, Medical equipment & supplies, and Monkeys
Title etched below image., From: Bartolomeo Pinelli, Nuova Raccolta de cinquanta costumi pittoreschi incise all'acqua forte. Roma, 1816., Below image at right: 43., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Medicine shows, Crowds, Snakes, and Amulets
Title in ink center bottom., Artist's name and date in ink lower left., Sepia drawing verso., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title from caption below image. and Date of publication surmised from the earliest date engraver might have been active (F. Allegrini: Italian printmaker, 1729-after 1773 per Union List of Artist Names Online). Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
Title etched below image., Date supplied by publisher., Place of publication derived from language of text., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prodigies; Giacomo Martino Modonesi.