Object details
Object number
2.c.3.10
Creator(s)
Title
Tragedies [Tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri di Asti]
Date
1783
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
Italian
Publication Place
Siena
Description
[1], 423 pages ; 23 cm.
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed (fly-leaf): autograph writing.
Provenance
Gift of the author Vittorio Alfieri to abbé Louis Goudard, with an autograph inscription.
Edward Cheney (1803-1884), English art collector and watercolorist: his bookplate and sale, 25 June 1886, lot 29.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the sale of Edward Cheney's library for 4 shillings with the assistance of Charles Eliot Norton and the bookseller Bernard Quaritch, London, July 1886. Gift of the author Vittorio Alfieri to abbé Louis Goudard, with an autograph inscription.
Edward Cheney (1803-1884), English art collector and watercolorist: his bookplate and sale, 25 June 1886, lot 29.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the sale of Edward Cheney's library with the assistance of Charles Eliot Norton and the bookseller Bernard Quaritch, London for 4 shillings, July 1886.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Choice Library of the late Edward Cheney, Esq. (London, 25-29 June 1886), lot 29.
M. De Gregorio.""Le bindolerie pazzine". L’editio princeps delle Tragedie alfieriane e la Tipografia Pazzini Carli." Studi Settecenteschi 9 (1988), pp. 59-92.
Vittorio Colombo. "Cimeli Alferiani e Varie Curiosità". Studi Italiani 35 (2006), pp. 91-114.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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