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Record number
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04/3304
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| Author | Millingen, James, 1774 - 1845 |
| Title | Peintures Antiques De Vases Grecs De La Collection De Sir John Coghill Bart Publiées Par James Millingen De La Société Des Antiquaires De Londres, Et De L'Académie Archæologique De Rome. |
| Imprint | Rome: Imprimé Par De Romanis, MDCCCXVII. Avec Permission. |
| Physical Description | [2], xx, 48 p., 52 pl. (nos. 50, 52 are dble.); 528 mm. (Broadsheet.) |
| Content Format Note | [T.p.] - Avis De L'Editeur - Premiére (- Trosième) Lettre Addressée A M. Millingen Par M. Le Chever. Jean Gherardo De Rossi Traduite De L'Italien - Explication De Peintures De Vases Grecs Planches I.(-LII.) [with pl.] - Errata; Imprimatur - Table Générale Des Matières. |
| Summary Note | The plates are outline drawings of images from ancient Greek vases, depicting myths or social customs. |
| Responsibility Note | No plate is signed. |
| Subject | Mythology, Greek - Iconography
Greeks - Greece - Social life and customs - History
Vase-painting, Greek - Vases, Greek - Greece - History
Collections - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Catalogues - Art history - Italy - 19th century
Pictorial works - Italy - 19th century |
| Name as Subject | Coghill, John, Bt., 1766 - 1817 |
| References | J. Scott, The pleasures of antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome (2003); A. Greifenhagen, 'Nachklänge griechische Vasenfunde im Klassizismus (1790-1840)', in Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, new ser. 5:1 (1963), p.84-105. |
| Copy Note | Instead of pl. IV a second copy of pl. II. has been bound in. |
| Binding Note | 19th-century half blue calf, brown papered boards; rebacked in 20th century, red morocco spine-label lettered 'Peintures De Vases Grecs - Millingen', spine lettered '1808'. |
| Provenance | Acquired between 1817 and 1821. Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1821. |
| Contributors | De Rossi, Giovanni Gherardo, 1754 - 1827
De Romanis, Mariano, fl. ca. 1790 - 1825?, printer |
