Title & Author:

[Engraved views of festivities at Turin in 1722 and 1737].

Publication:

[1722-1737?]

Description:

11 leaves : all illustrations (etchings) ; 66 cm

Notes:
Twenty-one engravings, twenty of these mounted two to a leaf, the last a single full-size item.
Eight of the views, engraved after F. Juvarra, were originally published in 1722 on the occasion of the marriage of Carlo Emanuele, Prince of Piedmont, to Anna Christina of Bavaria-Sultzbach. The remaining plates were published as the frontispiece and plates 1-8, 11-14 in: La sontuosa illuminazione della citta di Torino per l'augusto sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di Carlo Emmanuele, re di Sardegna, e di Elisabetta Teresa, principessa primogenita di Lorena, con l'aggiunta della pubblica esposizione della santissima Sindone. Torino : Presso Gio. Battista Chais, regio stampatore, 1737. Includes engravings by G.K. Prenner. A. Herisset, J.-L. Daudet, A. Aveline, A. Maisonneuve, J.A. Belmont and others.
Some plates have imprint of Reycend et Guibert compagnie.
The Mark J. Millard architectural collection, c1993-c2000, v. 4, p. 412-416
Peyrot, A. Torino nei secoli, 1965, 128

Subject:

Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773.
Elisabeth-Thérèse, Princess of Lorraine, 1711-1741.
Marriages of royalty and nobility Italy Turin.
Mariages royaux et nobles Italie Turin.
Marriages of royalty and nobility.
Italy Turin.

Form/genre:

Festival books.

Added entries:

Juvarra, Filippo, 1678-1736.
Prenner, Georg Kaspar, approximately 1720-1766.
Hérisset, Antoine, 1685-1769.
Daudet, Jean-Louis, active 1722-1744.
Aveline, Antoine, 1691-1743.
Maisonneuve, A.
Belmont, Jean Antoine, 1696-approximately 1769.
Sontuosa illuminazione della citta di Torino per l'augusto sposalizio delle Reali Maesta' di Carlo Emmanuele, re di Sardegna, e di Elisabetta Teresa, principessa primogenita di Lorena, con l'aggiunta della pubblica esposizione della santissima Sindone.

Holdings:

Location: Library cage m 30463
Call No.: 4836
Status: Available