B. Nocchi, D. Cunego, “Statua radiata del Sole” (Radiate Statue of the Sun) (Tav. XXXVII, Vol. I). Precious Etching ...

B. Nocchi, D. Cunego, “Statua radiata del Sole” (Radiate Statue of the Sun) (Tav. XXXVII, Vol. I). Precious Etching on copper: Hand-Watercolored subject on black ink bottom. Designed by Bernardino Nocchi (draftsman) and engraved by Domenico Cunego (engraver). Signed on plate. In Very Good condition with a usual burnish paper in margins. Including Passepartout. Precious Hadn-Watercolored engraving representing the radiate statue of the Sun deity. From "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli..", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published in Rome, 1821. It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill. Remarkable artists like Luigi Cunego, Gio. Batta Leonetti, Pietro Bettelini, Gio. Brunetti, Giovanni Ottaviani, Angelo Campanella, Pietro Fontana contributed. Drawings are, above all, by Agostino Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis, Teodoro Matteini. The Borghese Collection is known to be the most important antique statue one, after the Torlonia Collection in Rome.
59 x 44 (foglio), 48 x 33 (image), 69 x 49 (passepartout)