Fragments choisis dans les peintures et les tableaux les plus intéressans des palais et des églises de l'Italie
Contributors: Robert, Hubert, 1733-1808; Fragonard, Jean-Honoré, 1732-1806
Publisher: Chez Lavoy, imprimeur en taille-douce et marchand d'estampes, cour de l'Orrangerie, aux Thuileries
Published: 1780
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Format: [graphic]
Number of pages: 41
Subjects: Art; Early works to 1800; Italian Art; Pictorial works
Notes: Prints from three of six suites by Saint-Non after drawings by Fragonard depicting works of art preserved in Italy.

Imprint from Guimbaud, who gives the following imprint for suites 3 and 6 have imprint: A Paris, chez Jean, marchand d'estampes, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, no. 10.

Guimbaud, L.  Saint-Non et Fragonard, 59, 65, 68

Getty copy comprises 10 (of 41) unnumbered prints from the first suite, devoted to works in Rome; plates numbered 11-39 (of 41) from sixth suite (works in Venice); 2 plates (of 41) from the third suite (works in Bologna). All are in Guimbaud's 1st state (bistre on white paper). It is possible that some of the first 10 prints are from the second suite, also devoted to works in Rome, though they include title leaf of first suite after Hubert Robert, in proof state without imprint.

Prints in Getty copy from the Rome suite bear dates 1770 or 71 (title leaf 1772). Prints from Venice suite bear 1774 or 75. Prints from Bologna suite bear 1772.

Binding: 19th-century decorated paper, half brown leather. Spine gilt tooled, incorporating title. Edges gilt.

Printed label of Ulrich Middeldorf, with his pencilled bibliographical notes on front pastedown.