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<dl><dd>Binding: marbled paper over pasteboard, quarter calf. Spine with gold-tooled title: GROTTA / FERRATA / DOMENI / CHINO. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Antrobus</dd>
<dd>Ill. comprise frontispiece port. of Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico, nephew of Clement XIII, and 28 plates with reproductions of Domenichino's frescoes for the Chapel of St. Nilus and St. Bartholomew in the Abbey of Grottaferrata (1608-10). 7 of the plates are double leaves hinged in at the centerfold. The plates are after Niccolò Vanni's drawings by various engravers: Francesco Bartolozzi, Pietro Antonio Pazzi, Antonio Capellan, Carlo Gregori. Title vignette, 2 headpieces, 1 tailpiece, 2 historiated initial letters</dd>
<dd>[4], viii p., [36] leaves of plates (some folded) : 50 cm</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Cappella dei SS. Fondatori (Badia greca di Grottaferrata di Maria Santissima : Grottaferrata, Italy)</div>
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<dl><dd>Domenichino, 1581-1641</dd>
<dd>Vanni, Niccolò, 18th cent</dd>
<dd>Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815</dd>
<dd>Pazzi, Antonio, 1706-approximately 1766</dd>
<dd>Capellan, Antonio, 1740-1793</dd>
<dd>Gregori, Carlo Bartolomeo, 1702-1759</dd></dl></div>
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