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THBA rare Italian collection of plates of French Republican costume From the era of the first Directory
Lot 37
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Abito dei Rappresentanti del Popolo Francese: Membri dei due Consigli, del Direttorio Esecutivo, dei Ministri dei Tribunali, dei Messaggeri di Stato Uscieri, ed altri Funzionari Pubblici. Nice: Presso la Calcografia Nazionale, e Presso i Principali Merc[a]ti di Stampe d'Italia, 1796. 19th-century Italian quarter-leather over marbled boards. 6 x 8 1/4 inches (15 x 20 cm); 8 pp. text; engraved title with a large hand-colored vignette showing the "Consigli del Cinquecento" and 19 engraved, hand-colored plates of Republican costume. Binding rebacked, fading to spine, edges a bit rubbed, joints and boards slightly soiled and scuffed, corners of pastedowns and endpapers slightly browned. The plates show evidence of light background washes; in a few instances these have discolored slightly, and there are some minor spots and blemishes. This work draws inspiration from Jacques Grasset de Saint-Saveur's famous suite of plates of Republican costume, which were published in French, English and German. The Italian edition includes more plates than any of these, and these are substantially more polished than in the preceding editions. Also, the attitudes of the various functionaries depicted and even the captions have been altered, so this edition is by no means a slavish copy of Saint-Saveur's work. Curiously, the book lacks attribution as to the artist, author and engraver. We suspect that it was intended as a work of pro-French propaganda, designed to propagate French revolutionary ideals in Italy, at a time when Napoleon was invading that country. We trace no copies at auction, and institutionally the book appears rare, with examples at the V & A, the Kunstbliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Los Angeles County Museum and Brown (N.B. the Brown library catalogue ascribes the book to Saint-Saveur). Lipperheide (listing the work as after Grasset de Saint-Saveur) 1784; Colas 1297.No condition report? Click below to request one.*Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact and Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. Please contact the specialist department to request further information or additional images that may be available. Request a condition report
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