Album of prints entitled "Architettura del Mitelli"
Large vellum-bound album containing a collection of ornament prints. The spine has been inscribed in pen and ink with the title "Archite: / del / Mitelli". While a large part of the prints are by Agostino Mitelli, etchings and engravings by and after other artists have also been inserted into the album. Some are bound directly into the album, while many others have been pasted onto the blank pages in the back. The bound prints all appear to derive from the Roman De' Rossi family print stock. Aside from the pilaster designs by Mitelli, which forms the opening series in the album, the majority of the prints focuses on designs for cartouches, which range in date from ca. 1600 to around the middle of the seventeenth century. In some cases, however, they are represented by later editions of the prints. Several loose prints have been added by the Museum over time, in cases where the comparison was deemed pertinent.
Artwork Details
- Title: Album of prints entitled "Architettura del Mitelli"
- Artist and engraver: Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli (Italian, Battidizzo (Bologna) 1609–1660 Madrid)
- Artist: Bernardo Castello (Italian, Genoa (?) 1557–1629 Genoa)
- Artist and engraver: Francisco Herrera, the Younger ("El Mozo") (Spanish, Seville 1627–1685 Madrid)
- Artist: Leonardo dell'Arca (Italian, active 17th century)
- Artist and engraver: Pierre Firens I (Flemish, Antwerp 1580–1638 Paris)
- Artist: After Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)
- Artist: Formerly attributed to Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42–1609 Ancona)
- Engraver: Camillo Cungi (Italian, ca. 1597–1649 (active Rome and Genoa),)
- Engraver: H. Picart (French, active 1625)
- Publisher: Giovanni Battista de' Rossi (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1601–1678)
- Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)
- Publisher: Agostino Parisini (Italian, active Bologna, early 17th century)
- Publisher: Agostino Parisini & Giovanni Battista Negroponte
- Publisher: Pierre Mariette (French, 1596–1657)
- Publisher: Sebastiano Zecchini (Italian, active in Perugia ca. 1648-1656)
- Publisher: Gioseffo Longhi (Italian, 1620–1691)
- Published in: Rome
- Date: 1600–1699
- Medium: Etching, engraving
- Dimensions: 16 1/4 × 10 13/16 × 1 1/4 in. (41.2 × 27.5 × 3.2 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture, Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
- Object Number: 49.62.8(1-104)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Francisco Herrera, the Younger ("El Mozo")
1649
Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli
Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi
ca. 1648–91
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1620
Leonardo dell'Arca
ca. 1600–1620
Stefano della Bella
1646–99
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