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Callotto Resuscitato
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Il Callotto resuscitato oder Neü eingerichtes zwerchen Cabinet. [bound with three other suites of plates]. [Augsburg: c. 1720]
Folio (14 5/8 x 9 in.; 372 x 228 mm). Engraved and handcolored throughout, 50 (including title) engraved numbered plates of caricatures, unsigned, within interlaced historiated borders with 7-line captions in German (no. 22 in French, no. 35 in Italian) by Elias Baeck after Joost van Sassen, P. van Buysen, Adrien van Buysen the elder, and others, followed by a suite of 5 emblematic plates interpreting the senses (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Touch, Taste) by Christoph Weigel in Nuremberg after Caspar Luyken (d. 1708), followed by a suite of 12 plates interpreting the Months by the same artist, followed by another suite of 12 plates interpreting the Months by the first group of artists, followed by a suite of 12 plates including the title "Der Menschen Zung und Gurgel Weid zur Notturfft und Ergözlichkeit vorgestellte durch die unterschiedliche Arten der Beträncke" and finally, a suite of 14 plates providing moral lessons with captions in French and Italian signed by N[icolas] Bocquet (d. 1716) with the imprint "chez Rochefort"; marginal soiling and some repaired tears in lower margins, tear in tenth plate of last suite entering image, some marginal spots and stains. Contemporary vellum, ghost of title label on spine.
Folio (14 5/8 x 9 in.; 372 x 228 mm). Engraved and handcolored throughout, 50 (including title) engraved numbered plates of caricatures, unsigned, within interlaced historiated borders with 7-line captions in German (no. 22 in French, no. 35 in Italian) by Elias Baeck after Joost van Sassen, P. van Buysen, Adrien van Buysen the elder, and others, followed by a suite of 5 emblematic plates interpreting the senses (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Touch, Taste) by Christoph Weigel in Nuremberg after Caspar Luyken (d. 1708), followed by a suite of 12 plates interpreting the Months by the same artist, followed by another suite of 12 plates interpreting the Months by the first group of artists, followed by a suite of 12 plates including the title "Der Menschen Zung und Gurgel Weid zur Notturfft und Ergözlichkeit vorgestellte durch die unterschiedliche Arten der Beträncke" and finally, a suite of 14 plates providing moral lessons with captions in French and Italian signed by N[icolas] Bocquet (d. 1716) with the imprint "chez Rochefort"; marginal soiling and some repaired tears in lower margins, tear in tenth plate of last suite entering image, some marginal spots and stains. Contemporary vellum, ghost of title label on spine.
Provenance
Löffelholz von Kolberg family of Nuremberg (engraved armorial bookplate)
Literature
Lipperheide Xf 2 (on the Callotto); Faber du Faur 1842
Catalogue Note
A charming and handsomely colored collection of caricatures and emblematic scenes of daily life in Baroque Europe, including a suite depicting the role of drink in the life of man, from the infant's milk to the dying man's medicinal potion.
The Callotto appeared first in Amsterdam in 1716 in a multilingual edition printed by Wilhelm Engelbert Koning, with signed plates. The present plates are unsigned bearing only the Imperial privilege. Der Menschen Zung ("The tongue of Man") often appears bound with it.