Raccolta di Santi Padri nel deserto
By: disegnati, e intagliati dal celebre pittore Giovan[n]i Luigi Valesio ad uso de'pittori, e dilettanti ; ed ora dedicati alla gloriosa martire Santa Pazienza da Luigi Guidotti libraio, e stampatore in rame
Publisher: Sotto le scuole all'Insegna di S. Filippo Neri
Published: 1763
Place of publication: In Bologna
Language: ita; lat
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Hermits; Pictorial works; Hermits in art
Notes: Consists of a port. of St. Patientia, signed: "L. Guidotti, forma in Bologna, 1763"; title page; view of Bassano, signed: "L.P." and "Guidotti for. in Bologna"; and 30 full-page ill. of hermits, with Latin verses beneath, signed: "F. Valesio" and "Guidotti for. in Bologna".

Entirely engraved.

The 30 ill. of hermits are reverse copies by F. Valesio of a suite of engravings by J. and R. Sadeler after designs by M. de Vos. The Valesio engravings, and the view of Bassano, first appeared in 17th-cent. eds. of G. Cavacci, Illustrium anachoretarum elogia.

Purchase; von Hünersdorff; 29 July 1999; 99-132; $1187.78 (S.A.E. Morse fd.).

Bound in recent half brown morocco and marbled boards.