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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF A ROMAN INTERIOR
Lot 233 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(lots 233-234)

A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF A ROMAN INTERIOR

BY ANTONIO GIUSEPPE BARBAZZA, 1752

Closed11 September 2008

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A SET OF FOUR ITALIAN HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OF A ROMAN INTERIOR
BY ANTONIO GIUSEPPE BARBAZZA, 1752
Each depicting the interiors of a Roman sculpture gallery, two inscribed at the top, 'AERAE CHRISTI SAECULUM PRIMUM, the other two inscribed 'AERAE CHRISTI SAECULUM SECUNDUM, each inscribed at the bottom 'DEMONSTRATIO HISTORIAE ECCLESIASTICAE QUADRIPARTITAE COMPROBATAE MONUMENTIS PERTINENTIBUS AD FIDEM TEMPORUM ET GESTORUM', within a stiff-leaf carved parcel-gilt and ebonised moulded later frame
27¾ x 60 in. (70.5 x 152.5 cm.) [without frame]; 38¾ x 71 in. (98.5 x 180.5 cm.) [with frame] (4)

Bought from Carlton Hobbs Ltd., London, 1998.

Specialist note

The illustrations of Imperial Rome's monuments, sculptures and coins formed part of a suite of six engravings designed by A. G. Barbazza to illustrate Francesco Bianchini's Demonstratio historiae ecclesiasticae... or The story of the Church divided in four parts and explained with images of holy and unholy monuments referred to in religion, 1752.