?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 16,000
RAFFAELLO SANZIO D'URBINO, CALLED RAPHAEL (after)<> Logge del Vaticano<>.
Collection of 83 engravings with etching in 3 parts, 1772-77. Part I: 777x492 mm; 30 1/2x19 1/2 inches (sheets), wide margins, with 32 single sheet prints and one triple sheet print. Part II: 660x595 mm; 26x23 1/2 inches (joined sheets), small margins, with 26 single sheet prints each joind in pairs. Part III: 1110x540 mm; 43 3/4x21 1/4 inches (joined sheets), wide margins, with 24 single sheet prints each joined in pairs. Part I sheets with a fleur-de-lys in a circle watermark (similar to Robison 10, which he dates to the early 1750s).
Each engraved by Giovanni Volpato and Giovanni Ottaviani after drawings by Gaetano Savorelli and Pietro Camporesi of the frescoes by Raphael. Part I in a loose binding sewn at the upper margins of the sheets; parts II and III loose. Printed by Marco Pagliarini, Rome. In very good condition, with superb, early impressions of the prints. Brunet IV, cf. 1110 and 1111; Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten<>, Coburg, 1984, p. 104 and no. 245; Giovanni Volpato 1735-1803<>, Bassano del Grappa, 1988, pp. 173-198 and 213-19.
