Old master drawings.- Nolli (Carlo, fl. 1752-1770) Twelve prints after drawings by Guercino, Parmigianino, and Francesco Primaticcio and others, etchings, some with delicate aquatint and plate tone, all monogrammed in the plate 'CN', on uniform laid paper with watermark of the initials PP within an orb and cross, platemarks between 220 x 160 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in) and 430 x 255 mm. (16 7/8 x 10 in), each sheet uncut and approx. 500 x 380 mm. (19 3/4 x 15 in), loose and unframed, [circa 1752-1770]; together with three further prints by different hands after old master drawings, two after Guercino, the other Parmigianino, unframed, (15) ⁂ Son of Giovanni Battista Nolli little is known of the work of Carlo. We were unable to trace any other examples of the present suite of highly competent etchings after old master drawings. Each sheet, printed on the same watermarked paper, features two marginal pin-holes from a stitched binding suggesting that they once formed part, or were the entirety of a coherent publication or body of work. The British Museum holds one example of a similar etching by Nolli, but on a rather smaller scale (see acc no. 1867,0309.619).
Old master drawings.- Nolli (Carlo, fl. 1752-1770) Twelve prints after drawings by Guercino, Parmigianino, and Francesco Primaticcio and others, etchings, some with delicate aquatint and plate tone, all monogrammed in the plate 'CN', on uniform laid paper with watermark of the initials PP within an orb and cross, platemarks between 220 x 160 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in) and 430 x 255 mm. (16 7/8 x 10 in), each sheet uncut and approx. 500 x 380 mm. (19 3/4 x 15 in), loose and unframed, [circa 1752-1770]; together with three further prints by different hands after old master drawings, two after Guercino, the other Parmigianino, unframed, (15) ⁂ Son of Giovanni Battista Nolli little is known of the work of Carlo. We were unable to trace any other examples of the present suite of highly competent etchings after old master drawings. Each sheet, printed on the same watermarked paper, features two marginal pin-holes from a stitched binding suggesting that they once formed part, or were the entirety of a coherent publication or body of work. The British Museum holds one example of a similar etching by Nolli, but on a rather smaller scale (see acc no. 1867,0309.619).
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