<div class="description">
<dl><dd>Place of publication from Bonacini</dd>
<dd>Various editions during Mitelli's lifetime and after. See Varignana</dd>
<dd>Etched throughout. First leaf is title, 2nd is Mitelli's preface entitled "A suoi scolari." The 23 leaves that follow bear an alphabet (omitting J, U, W), the letters formed from human or mythological figures. In the margins are faces and other body parts intended as models for drawing. Above most letters is an animal or bird whose name begins with the letter. Three lines of text at foot of each letter</dd>
<dd>The etchings (plate marks ca. 27.5 x 19.5 cm.) are printed on 1st and 3rd pages of bifolia that consist of two sheets pasted together at the fold (opened dimensions ca. 39.5 x 56 cm.). The rather heavy laid paper is watermarked PANZANO, with 8 circles (ca. 4 cm. in diameter) along upper and lower margins of sheet (18th century?)</dd>
<dd>Bonacini, C. Arti scrittorie</dd>
<dd>Varignana, F. Mitelli</dd>
<dd>Getty copy disbound, now in cloth-covered clamshell box</dd>
<dd>Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1718</dd>
<dd>2 unnumbered leaves, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : 40 cm</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Alphabets; Drawing; Alfabet i konsten; Alphabets -- Early works to 1800; Drawing -- Early works to 1800; Alfabet i konsten -- Italien</div>
<div class="fn value">
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718</div>
Internet Archive identifier