Beschreibung:

Amicis suis necnon unicuique Artium elegantiorum Amatori, Tabulas insequentes Ludentis Otii temporibus ligno incisas, 1781-82, a collection of 27 chiaroscuro woodcuts after Old Master drawings, by Raphael, Correggio, Perino del Vaga, Titian, Parmigianino, Andrea del Sarto Tinteretto, Mantegna, Rubens, Bandinelli, Michelangelo and others, mounted to album leaves, the first plates (with title or dedication) with some marks and fraying to right margin, woodcut after Rubens detached with closed tears to bottom left and upper right corners, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, lacking upper cover, folio (49 x 34.5 cm, 19.25 x 13.5 ins) John Skippe (1741-1812) collector and woodcut artist, was born in Herefordshire, and was a friend of the picturesque theorist Uvedale Price On his return from Italy, he produced a series of woodcuts after Italian drawings between 1781 and 1809. His collection of Old Master drawings was auctioned by Christies in 1958. A similar collection of 26 woodcut plates bound in album format was offered by Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, Auktion 109, 25 May 2017, lot 5321. (1)