CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635, etcher) -- Giovanni ALTOVITI. Essequie della Sacra Cattolica el Real Maesta di Margherita d'Austria Regina di Spagna, Celebrate dal Serenissimo Don Cosimo II. Gran Duca di Toscana IIII. Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli, 1612. 2° (324 x 227mm). Title with border of typographic ornaments and woodcut vignette Royal arms of Spain. Three full-page etched illustrations by Callot, 26 half-page illustrations by Callot, Antonio Tempesta and Raffaelo Schiaminossi. (Nos. 16 and 17 of the half-page illustrations with vertical printing faults, small repaired tear to blank margin of C2.) 19th-century English dark blue morocco gilt, covers with centrally-placed 'HED' monogram surmounted by a Baron's coronet, flat spine titled in gilt, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Pietro Ginori-Conti (armorial bookplate). An important series in the canon of Callot's work: this record of the funeral of the Queen of Spain on 3 February 1612 (1611 according the old Florentine calendar) marks his first contact with the Medici court (the work was commissioned by Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany); it is the first recorded work of Callot's after his arrival in Florence and probably his first published etchings. The majority of the illustrations are by Callot, but examples from the two masters under whom he studied under in Florence: Tempesta and Schiaminossi. Berlin Kat. 3198; G.G.Bertelà & A.P.Tofani. Feste e Apparati Medicei da Cosimo I a Cosimo II (Florence: 1969), pp.138-140 & 220; Lieure 52-69; H. Diane Russell. Jacques Callot Prints and Related Drawings (Washington: 1975) 9.
CALLOT, Jacques (1592-1635, etcher) -- Giovanni ALTOVITI. Essequie della Sacra Cattolica el Real Maesta di Margherita d'Austria Regina di Spagna, Celebrate dal Serenissimo Don Cosimo II. Gran Duca di Toscana IIII. Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli, 1612. 2° (324 x 227mm). Title with border of typographic ornaments and woodcut vignette Royal arms of Spain. Three full-page etched illustrations by Callot, 26 half-page illustrations by Callot, Antonio Tempesta and Raffaelo Schiaminossi. (Nos. 16 and 17 of the half-page illustrations with vertical printing faults, small repaired tear to blank margin of C2.) 19th-century English dark blue morocco gilt, covers with centrally-placed 'HED' monogram surmounted by a Baron's coronet, flat spine titled in gilt, g.e. (light scuffing to extremities). Provenance : Pietro Ginori-Conti (armorial bookplate). An important series in the canon of Callot's work: this record of the funeral of the Queen of Spain on 3 February 1612 (1611 according the old Florentine calendar) marks his first contact with the Medici court (the work was commissioned by Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany); it is the first recorded work of Callot's after his arrival in Florence and probably his first published etchings. The majority of the illustrations are by Callot, but examples from the two masters under whom he studied under in Florence: Tempesta and Schiaminossi. Berlin Kat. 3198; G.G.Bertelà & A.P.Tofani. Feste e Apparati Medicei da Cosimo I a Cosimo II (Florence: 1969), pp.138-140 & 220; Lieure 52-69; H. Diane Russell. Jacques Callot Prints and Related Drawings (Washington: 1975) 9.
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