British Museum, Department of Prints & Drawings
Popham (Arthur Ewart), 1889-1970; Pouncey (Philip), 1910-1990; Wilde (Johannes), 1891-1970; Gere (John), 1921-1995; Wood (Rosalind)
Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum [1]. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries § [2]. Michelangelo and his studio § [3]. Raphael and his circle : Giulio Romano, G.F. Penni, Perino del Vaga, Giovanni da Udine, Tommaso Vincidor, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Baldassare Peruzzi, Timoteo Viti and Girolamo Genga. Also Sebastiano del Piombo § [4]. Artists working in Parma in the sixteenth century : Correggio, Anselmi, Rondani, Gatti, Gambara, Orsi, Parmigianino, Bedoli, Betoja § [5]. Artists working in Rome, c. 1550 to c. 1640
London, British Museum / British Museum Publications Limited, 1950-1983
Five parts in nine volumes (25 cm), uniformly bound in publisher’s cloth, pictorial dust jackets. - First editions, except for part II (Michelangelo and his studio) in reprint of 1953 edition, published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the artist’s birth. Not included is part [6] Roman Baroque drawings, c. 1620 to c. 1700, by Nicholas Turner, with the assistance of Rhoda Eitel-Porter, published in 1999 (can be supplied separately, price approximately £90). ¶ Excellent, unmarked copies.