PALLAVICINO, Ortensio. D.O.M. Austriaci Caesares Mariae Annae... Reginae in dotale auspicium... exhibiti. Milan: Lodovico Monti, 1649. 4° (246 x 177mm). Etched title and 13 oval portraits, each within an elaborate etched border, all by Federigo Agnelli. Contemporary vellum (small tear to spine, ties lacking.) FIRST EDITION of a work issued on the occasion of the engagement of Anna Maria of Austria to Philip IV of Spain. It consists of portraits by Agnelli (1626-1702) with accompanying biographies of the great Habsburg rulers. A rare example of late baroque Milanese book illustration, and Agnelli's masterpiece. Praz p.443.
PALLAVICINO, Ortensio. D.O.M. Austriaci Caesares Mariae Annae... Reginae in dotale auspicium... exhibiti. Milan: Lodovico Monti, 1649. 4° (246 x 177mm). Etched title and 13 oval portraits, each within an elaborate etched border, all by Federigo Agnelli. Contemporary vellum (small tear to spine, ties lacking.) FIRST EDITION of a work issued on the occasion of the engagement of Anna Maria of Austria to Philip IV of Spain. It consists of portraits by Agnelli (1626-1702) with accompanying biographies of the great Habsburg rulers. A rare example of late baroque Milanese book illustration, and Agnelli's masterpiece. Praz p.443.
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