Piazzetta, Studi di pittura, Venice, 1760, later half vellum

PIAZZETTA, GIAMBATTISTA

Studi di pittura già dissegnati di Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. Venice: for G.B. Albrizzi, 1760

oblong folio (277 x 410mm.), title printed in red and black with engraved device, engraved frontispiece, engraved initials, head- and tailpieces (including a self-portrait of the artist dated 1738), list of subscribers, 24 engraved plates, each in two versions (see footnote), later half vellum, red morocco lettering-piece on upper cover and on spine, modern card slipcase, frontispiece repaired at foredge and with small stain, a few marginal repairs to plates (the second plate 1 with more substantial repairs)

FIRST EDITION. The Venetian painter Piazzetta (1682-1754) executed commissions for various Venetian and foreign nobles, many of whom are named in the list of subscribers. He produced drawings for more than sixty books, the most famous of which is Albrizzi's 1745 Gerusalemme Liberata. The plates here were produced after Piazzetta's death by his pupils Marco Pitteri and Francesco Bartolozzi, who provided a copy of each of his drawings in their own distinctive style.

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