318 - Cesi, Carlo and Annibale Carracci. Gallery in the Farnese Palace in Rome. Rome, Venanzio Monaldini, mid-18th century. An extremely rare fourth edition of the famous engravings of the Farnese Gallery by Annibale Carracci

Cesi, Carlo and Annibale Carracci. Gallery in the Farnese Palace in Rome. Rome, Venanzio Monaldini, mid-18th century. An extremely rare fourth edition of the famous engravings of the Farnese Gallery by Annibale Carracci Cesi, Carlo and Annibale Carracci. Gallery in the Farnese Palace in Rome. Rome, Venanzio Monaldini, mid-18th century. Folio (470 x 340 mm.) Title page, portrait of Carracci, and 34 plates; plate 30 is repeated twice with different subjects (woodworm hole on the inner margin with old repairs, sporadic stains, some plates have creases from folding.) Early 20th-century half-parchment binding (worn, with some missing sections). Album consisting solely of plates, dedicated to the frescoes created by Annibale Carracci and his workshop for the Gallery of Palazzo Farnese, commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese. Carlo Cesi’s magnificent engravings reproduce the entire decorative cycle, one of the greatest masterpieces of late 16th-century Roman painting. This is the fourth edition printed by Arnold van Westerhout, without the privilege and Arabic numerals, which have been replaced by Roman numerals for the plates, and with the title bearing the publisher’s note “In Rome at the bookshop of Venanzio Monaldini on the Corso.” Very rare fourth edition of the celebrated engravings of the Farnese Gallery after Annibale Carracci