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Auction archive: Lot number 349

Luigi ROSSINI. Une collection d'oeuvres, parmi lesquelles: Le antichità Romane :1829; Le antichità dei contorni di Roma ossia le piu famose città del Lazio, Tivoli, Albano, Castel Gandolfo. Rome: 1826; I sette colle di Roma antica e moderna , Rome:18...

Auction 03.12.1997
3 Dec 1997
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$41,545 - US$58,163
Price realised:
£36,700
ca. US$60,988
Auction archive: Lot number 349

Luigi ROSSINI. Une collection d'oeuvres, parmi lesquelles: Le antichità Romane :1829; Le antichità dei contorni di Roma ossia le piu famose città del Lazio, Tivoli, Albano, Castel Gandolfo. Rome: 1826; I sette colle di Roma antica e moderna , Rome:18...

Auction 03.12.1997
3 Dec 1997
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$41,545 - US$58,163
Price realised:
£36,700
ca. US$60,988
Beschreibung:

Luigi ROSSINI Une collection d'oeuvres, parmi lesquelles: Le antichità Romane :1829; Le antichità dei contorni di Roma ossia le piu famose città del Lazio, Tivoli, Albano, Castel Gandolfo. Rome: 1826; I sette colle di Roma antica e moderna , Rome:1839 (etc). Belle collection des oeuvres de Rossini, reliées de manière uniforme. . Rome ROSSINI, Luigi (1790-1857). Collection of works. Rome: Rossini and others, 1829-1843. 9 works in 9 volumes, 2° (575 x 430mm.) and large 2° (745 x 540mm). Etched and engraved plates and plans. Contemporary uniform half vellum gilt, flat spines with red morocco lettering-pieces and green band-markers (a few small neat repairs to spines, some light scuffing to extremities). The collection comprises: Le antichità Romane. Rome: 1829. Large 2°. Letterpress title. 101 plates. (Title spotted, some other light marginal spotting.) Berlin Kat. 1916; Brunet IV, 1408. Le antichità dei contorni di Roma ossia le più famose città del Lazio, Tivoli, Albano, Castel Gandolfo [etc]. Rome: 1826. Large 2°. Letterpress half-title, address to reader, 5pp. text. Engraved title and 72 plates. Berlin Kat. 1917; Brunet IV, 1408. I sette colle di Roma antica e moderna. Rome: 1828-1829. Large 2°. Double-page title with engraved vignette, folding text leaf. Double-page engraved additional title, double-page plan of Rome (slightly spotted), 24 engraved double-page plans and views, one folding engraved panorama of the forum on four joined sheets. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Brunet IV, 1408. Le porte antiche e moderne del recinto di Roma. Rome: 1829. Large 2°. Title with engraved vignette, 2pp. text. 35 engraved plates (2 plates showing 2 views each). (Light spotting to title and first six plates). Brunet IV 1409. Le antichità di Pompei. Rome: [1830-31]. Large 2°. 6pp. letterpress text. Engraved title, frontispiece, plan and 72 plates. Berlin Kat. 1919; Brunet IV, 1408. Gli archi trionfali onorarii e funebri degli antichi Romani. Rome: [1836]. Large 2°. Letterpress title, dedication, 12pp. text. 74 engraved plates on 73 leaves. (Some light marginal spotting.) Berlin Kat. 1921; Brunet IV, 1408, calling for 72 only. Scenografia degli' interni delle più belle chiese e basiliche antiche di Roma. Rome: 1843. Letterpress title, 2pp. text. Half-title with engraved vignette on india paper mounted dated 1845, additional engraved title and 29 plates, all but one plate on india paper mounted. (Occasional light browning.) Olschki 17994. Viaggio pittoresco da Roma a Napoli. Rome: 1839. 2°. Letterpress half-title, dedication, 10pp. text. Engraved title and 80 plates. (Half-title and text leaves very lightly creased, tear in dedication leaf neatly repaired.) This work includes 17 views of Rome, 57 views en route (including Albano, Velletri, Terracina and Benevento) and 7 views of Naples itself. Brunet V, 1409. I monumenti più interessanti di Roma . Rome: [1828-30]. 2°. Etched title and 53 plates. Brunet IV, 1409, calling for 58 plates. A FINE COLLECTION OF ROSSINI'S WORKS in uniform bindings, probably bought and bound soon after 1843. Rossini was the last great exponent of the vedute , following in the footsteps of Canaletto, Panini and Piranesi. Although too young to have known Piranesi, Rossini had a bust made of the great artist and considered him "one of the glories of Italy". Born at Ravenna, Rossini trained at Bologna with, among others, Luigi Cini He then proceeded to Rome, where he came under the patronage of Canova, executing designs for a church at Possagno built by Canova. Rossini also began publishing etched and engraved plates of views of Rome. Like the master he so admired, Rossini combined technical accuracy with artistic vision, thereby reproducing the classical beauty of Rome which was, by Rossini's day, fast disappearing. Some of his work records buildings, such as the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls, almost for the last time, while other plates record sites, such as the lower floor of t

Auction archive: Lot number 349
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

Luigi ROSSINI Une collection d'oeuvres, parmi lesquelles: Le antichità Romane :1829; Le antichità dei contorni di Roma ossia le piu famose città del Lazio, Tivoli, Albano, Castel Gandolfo. Rome: 1826; I sette colle di Roma antica e moderna , Rome:1839 (etc). Belle collection des oeuvres de Rossini, reliées de manière uniforme. . Rome ROSSINI, Luigi (1790-1857). Collection of works. Rome: Rossini and others, 1829-1843. 9 works in 9 volumes, 2° (575 x 430mm.) and large 2° (745 x 540mm). Etched and engraved plates and plans. Contemporary uniform half vellum gilt, flat spines with red morocco lettering-pieces and green band-markers (a few small neat repairs to spines, some light scuffing to extremities). The collection comprises: Le antichità Romane. Rome: 1829. Large 2°. Letterpress title. 101 plates. (Title spotted, some other light marginal spotting.) Berlin Kat. 1916; Brunet IV, 1408. Le antichità dei contorni di Roma ossia le più famose città del Lazio, Tivoli, Albano, Castel Gandolfo [etc]. Rome: 1826. Large 2°. Letterpress half-title, address to reader, 5pp. text. Engraved title and 72 plates. Berlin Kat. 1917; Brunet IV, 1408. I sette colle di Roma antica e moderna. Rome: 1828-1829. Large 2°. Double-page title with engraved vignette, folding text leaf. Double-page engraved additional title, double-page plan of Rome (slightly spotted), 24 engraved double-page plans and views, one folding engraved panorama of the forum on four joined sheets. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Brunet IV, 1408. Le porte antiche e moderne del recinto di Roma. Rome: 1829. Large 2°. Title with engraved vignette, 2pp. text. 35 engraved plates (2 plates showing 2 views each). (Light spotting to title and first six plates). Brunet IV 1409. Le antichità di Pompei. Rome: [1830-31]. Large 2°. 6pp. letterpress text. Engraved title, frontispiece, plan and 72 plates. Berlin Kat. 1919; Brunet IV, 1408. Gli archi trionfali onorarii e funebri degli antichi Romani. Rome: [1836]. Large 2°. Letterpress title, dedication, 12pp. text. 74 engraved plates on 73 leaves. (Some light marginal spotting.) Berlin Kat. 1921; Brunet IV, 1408, calling for 72 only. Scenografia degli' interni delle più belle chiese e basiliche antiche di Roma. Rome: 1843. Letterpress title, 2pp. text. Half-title with engraved vignette on india paper mounted dated 1845, additional engraved title and 29 plates, all but one plate on india paper mounted. (Occasional light browning.) Olschki 17994. Viaggio pittoresco da Roma a Napoli. Rome: 1839. 2°. Letterpress half-title, dedication, 10pp. text. Engraved title and 80 plates. (Half-title and text leaves very lightly creased, tear in dedication leaf neatly repaired.) This work includes 17 views of Rome, 57 views en route (including Albano, Velletri, Terracina and Benevento) and 7 views of Naples itself. Brunet V, 1409. I monumenti più interessanti di Roma . Rome: [1828-30]. 2°. Etched title and 53 plates. Brunet IV, 1409, calling for 58 plates. A FINE COLLECTION OF ROSSINI'S WORKS in uniform bindings, probably bought and bound soon after 1843. Rossini was the last great exponent of the vedute , following in the footsteps of Canaletto, Panini and Piranesi. Although too young to have known Piranesi, Rossini had a bust made of the great artist and considered him "one of the glories of Italy". Born at Ravenna, Rossini trained at Bologna with, among others, Luigi Cini He then proceeded to Rome, where he came under the patronage of Canova, executing designs for a church at Possagno built by Canova. Rossini also began publishing etched and engraved plates of views of Rome. Like the master he so admired, Rossini combined technical accuracy with artistic vision, thereby reproducing the classical beauty of Rome which was, by Rossini's day, fast disappearing. Some of his work records buildings, such as the Basilica of St. Paul outside the Walls, almost for the last time, while other plates record sites, such as the lower floor of t

Auction archive: Lot number 349
Auction:
Datum:
3 Dec 1997
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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