Tabellae selectae ac explicatae
By: a Carola Catharina Patina, Parisina academica
Contributors: Typographia Seminarii (Padua, Italy); Seminario (padua
Publisher: Ex Typographia Seminarii
Published: 1691
Place of publication: Patavii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Appreciation; Early works to 1800; Italian Painting; Renaissance Painting
Other titles: Tabellae selectae ac explicatae a Carola Catharina Patina, Parisina academica
Notes: Nineteen of the 40 plates are double sheets. Paging includes most of the plates as well as the fifty letterpress leaves, double-sheet plates being counted as 2, 4 or 6 pages depending on extent. Page 82 followed in numbering by 82-2 and 82-3.

Engraved frontispiece by Josef Juster after Louis Dorigny. T.p. ill. by Martial Desbois after Guido Reni. Artists of paintings reproduced are identified in legends as: Jacopo Bassano, Carlo Caliari, Annibale Carracci, Lodovico Carracci, Domenico Contarini(?), Guercino, Hans Holbein, Noël Jouvenet (port. of Patin family), Leonardo (in Patin collection), Andrea Michieli, Padovanino, Poussin, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese. The etchings and engravings are by Noël-Robert Cochin, Martial Desbois, Josef Juster, Johann Jakob Thurneysen, Hubert Vincent. Head- and tail-pieces (that on p. [5] etched), initials.

Binding: vellum. PATINA written at head of spine. Edges lightly marbled red & blue.

Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick. Inscriptions on front free endpaper.