Lodovico Leschi (author)
Innocente Alessandri (b.c. 1740) (artist and engraver)
Pietro Scattaglia (1739-c. 1810) (artist and engraver)
Montone di Barberia [Barbary Coast (Northern Africa) Ram] -- Plate 25
Mufione [Mountain Goat] -- Plate 7
from Descrizioni degli Animali Quadrupedi [Descriptions of the Quadrupeds]
Venice: 1771-75
Hand-colored engravings
14 x 10.5 inches, platemark
19 x 13.5 inches overall, approximate
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Ram and Goat
Venetian 18th Century Engravings
Venetian 18th Century Engravings
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Natural history illustrations of a Barbary Coast Ram and Mountain Goat from a four-volume series containing about 200 plates of quadrupeds.
Each animal is posed upon a patch of ground sprouting colorful flowers and foliage. Although the animals are realistically drawn and colored, the animals seem imbued with personality, and the backgrounds are slightly more decorative than documentary. This is typical of Italian natural history plates of that era, which retain the influence of the Baroque sensibility well into the 18th and even 19th centuries.
Innocente Alessandri and Pietro Scattaglia were Italian engravers and publishers who worked together in Venice. They are best known for their illustrations for Lodovico Leschi’s four-volume natural history collection Descrizioni degli Animali Quadrupedi (1771-75) -- the source of the offered prints. They also collaborated on collections of musical compositions, including Andrea Basili’s Musica Universale Armonico (c. 1775), and Duetti a Due Soprani (c. 1790) by Giovanni Amadeo Hauman. Alessandri was a student of the Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) before Bartolozzi left Italy for London. Alessandri produced engravings and aquatints, notably a series of four allegorical plates after Domenico Maggiotto, as well as religious scenes after Piazzetta and Le Moine, and landscapes after Marco Ricci. Scattaglia engraved a number of prints that are now in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Padua.
Paper with partial Whatman watermark: [WHAT]MAN 1895
References:
“Animali quadrupedi disegnati.” Biblioteca Panizzi. http://panizzi.comune.re.it/mostre/zoo/quadrupedi.htm (17 May 2005).
Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 1, p. 91 (Alessandri); Vol. 7, p. 551 (Scattaglia).
“Innocente Alessandri.” Sapere.it. http://www.sapere.it/tca/MainApp?srvc=vr&url=/1/189_1 (17 May 2005).
“Sibley Music Library Microform Publications.” Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music. 2002. http://www.rochester.edu/Eastman/sibley/?page=micro_sale_list (17 May 2005).
Stroux, Christoph. “Comtesse de Chambure.” Lilian Voudouri Music Library of Greece. http://www.mmb.org.gr/page/default.asp?id=885&la=2 (17 May 2005).