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Il pennello lagrimato orazione funebre ... in morte della signora Elisabetta Sirani pittrice famosissima

Author: Giovanni Luigi Picinardi (Italian, 17th century)
Illustrated by: Lorenzo Tinti (Italian, 1626 to 1634–1672)
Sitter: Elisabetta Sirani (Italian, 1638–1665)
Printer: Giacomo Monti (Italian, 17th century)
1665
Place of Publication: Bologna, Italy

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with one engraving and one woodcut
Dimensions Overall: 20.8 x 15 x 1.2 cm (8 3/16 x 5 7/8 x 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Fund
Accession Number63.559
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1665

Catalogue Raisonné Cicognara 2345
Description(Bologna: Giacomo Monti, 1665) Quarto; 36 leaves [lacking two plates]; modern half brown calf, marbled paper boards.

Frontispiece with portrait of Elisabetta Sirani, and woodcut of skull and crossbones (p. 60).

First edition. This copy contains the engraved frontispiece with a portrait of Elisabetta Sirani, but [per copies at Getty and Chicago] lacks two other plates engraved by Tinti after Matteo Borboni (Matheus Borbon), one of which depicts the catafalque Sirani designed for herself.
ProvenanceDavis & Orioli, London, from whom purchased by MFA, May 8, 1963.