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Pompei wall paintings beautifully chromolithographed

CERILLO, Eduardo.
Dipinti murali di Pompei - Medaglie Instituto d'Incoraggiomento di Napoli. Espozioni di Londra e Milano.

With lithographed title-page in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns.

With lithographed title-page in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns.

With lithographed title-page in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns.

With lithographed title-page in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns.

With lithographed title-page in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns.



Naples, proprietà Cav. Uff. Pasquale d'Amelio, (lithographed by) Richter & Co., [ca. 1886]. Large folio (ca. 62 x 43 cm). Contemporary half vellum (J. A. LOEBER, Leiden), original front wrapper with title "Dipinti murali scelti di Pompei" bound in. With lithographed title-page in red and black with vignette, and 20 fine chromo-lithographed plates numbered I-XX by and after Vincenzo Loria. With bilingual text (Italian and French) in 2 columns. IX, [1 blank], 20 pp.

A superbly illustrated work on the mural paintings discovered in Pompei in the 18th and 19th centuries. "The 20 large plates ... bring into prominence the architectonic side of Pompeian wall painting. The colors are very close to the originals during the first days of their recovery from the darkness of 2000 years, before the hot Neapolitan sun has bleached some of the pigments and induced a delicacy of tone which was not meant by the painters" (The New York Times, 20 June 1887).
The lithographs were executed by the landscape and genre painter Vincenzo Loria (Salerno 1850-1939). The main text is written by the architect Edoardo Cerillo, "who calls attention to the value of these compositions, invented to give variety and change to plain walls, not so much for their artistic beauty as for the lessons they contain concerning the architecture of Rome, Greece and the Orient. The 20 plates in chromo-lithography, together with ample descriptive and critical text, appeared in large, loose sheets in a portfolio, cost $75 a set, and form a limited edition. If the publisher receives encouragement here the American edition will be 100 copies" (The New York Times, 20 June 1887).
An edition with descriptive text in Italian and English was published in Naples ca. 1888. The publication is of special interest to architects and decorative artists for it shows the variety and grace of buildings now impossible to reconstruct from any other sources, and the possibility of introducing bold and beautiful effects on blank walls by the use of colours.

In very good condition. Binding slightly soiled and with a small crack in the hinge; title with spotting and marginal browning; blank margins of plates with occasional soiling or spotting; plate X with small tear in upper blank margin; some light offsetting of plates on blank verso of previous plate; small blue stain on right paper edge. A very good and scarce work on Pompei wall paintings.
Not in Berlin Kat.; Fowler; Millard (French); Millard (Italian).

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Archaeology  Art  Chromolithography  Colour Platebooks  Italy 

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