Part the First, Containing Ten Prints Engraved in Chiaro Oscuro, after Original Drawings Of the following Masters: In the Collection of John Skippe, Esq; Parmegiano, Raphael, Andrea Mantegna, M. Angelo, Rubens, Pierino del Vaga.
[London: Torre & Co., c.1782.] Letterpress title and six woodcuts (of ten], scarce but incomplete. Each plate 540 x 380mm (21¼ x 15"). Edges ragged. A collection of plates after old master drawings, printed from multiple woodblocks to mimic the toning of the originals. The plates are: a male term after a drawing attributed to Raphael now in the British Museum (BM 1923,1015.19); a man standing (reading or drawing?) after Mantegna (See BM 1853,0611.7 for more detailed version); a group of monks after Rubens (BM 1891,0414.698); a seated youth after Michelangelo (variant of BM 1927,0614.315); a bearded saint after Parmigianino (variant of BM 1952,0117.5); and a man with arms tied, sitting on a rock, having a cloak thrown over his shoulders by another man, after Baccio Bandinelli (NM 1878,0713.2552).
[Ref: 60909] £1,200.00
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