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Morozzi, Ferdinando. Serie di ritratti dei granduchi e granduchesse di Toscana.

Title: Serie di ritratti dei granduchi e granduchesse di Toscana. ca. 1650-1780.

Collection of engraved portraits of members of the House of Medici and other rulers of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, from various mid-17th to late 18th-century sources. Includes illustrated genealogical tables, depictions of coins and portrait medallions, and other related material. Includes engraved t.p. and many portraits from Chronologica series simulacrorum regiae familiae Mediceae centum expressa toreumis, published by Giuseppe Allegrini, Florence, 1761; title on engraved t.p. reads: Regiae familiae Mediceorum Etruriae principum effigies. This work contained portraits engraved by Adriaen Haelwegh, ca. 1670, and by Francesco Allegrini after Giuseppe Zocchi. Includes plates from: Orsini, Ignazio. Storia delle monete de' Granduchi di Toscana, della Casa de' Medici e di quelle dell' augustissimo imperatore Francesco di Lorena come granduca di Toscana. Firenze : G.P. Giovannelli, 1756. Includes 3 full-page hand-drawn and painted pictorial genealogical table by Fernando Morozzi, dated 1776-1777; folding pictorial geneal. table (plate mark ca. 64 x 125 cm.) engraved by F. Allegrini after G.B. Dei, 1761; full-page engraved pictorial geneal. table. Includes a group portrait around Grand Duke Ferdinand II, and a fireworks print recording the wedding celebration of Violante, duchess of Bavaria, and Ferdinando, grand prince of Tuscany, 1688. Includes also ca. 25 leaves containing engraved portraits of prominent Florentines, e.g. Pope Clement XII, Francesco Guicciardini, Michelangelo, Boccaccio, Galileo, Amerigo Vespucci, Brunelleschi, Dante, Alberti. Other engravers include Carlo Gregori, Antonio Pazzi, G.M. Preisler, Theodor Verkruys and Arnold van Westerhout. In all, 261 ports. and 45 other prints. Prints are various sizes, mounted chiefly 1 or 2 to a leaf; some leaves include 5 or more smaller ports. Prints depicting coins and medallions are usually mounted 4 or more to a leaf, with ms. legends. Leaves containing prints are numbered 1-153, with several omissions; several blank leaves are not numbered.

ArchivalResource: 1 album (ca. 160 leaves) ; 81 x 55 cm.

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