Lot 127: VECELLIO, CESARE

Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo. Venice: Giovanni Bernardo Sessa, 1598

8vo (7 x 4 1/2 in.; 179 x 115 mm). Title-page within an architectural woodcut border featuring the 4 continents, 506 full-page woodcut costumes and views, printer's woodcut device at the end; title-page extended, closed tear on fore-edge of I4, some browning and staining throughout, figure on R7v outlined in early ink. Full brown crushed morocco antique, spine stamped in blind, copper clasp.

PROVENANCE

Benjamin R. Haydon (signature on title-page dated 1816) ? E. H. Frost, Charleston, South Carolina (signature on title-page dated 1853)
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Cicognara 1819; Colas 2977; Lipperheide Aa 34; Sabin 98732
CATALOGUE NOTE

The second edition, augmented with eighty-seven more subjects than the first edition of 1590. The costume subjects were designed by Vecellio and cut by Christoph Krieger (otherwise known as Cristoforo Guerra). Vecellio was a cousin of the artist Titian, studied with him, and it is thought was assisted by him in the design of the illustrations. Many of the subjects appear to be based on manuscript or printed sources, for example those of Nicolas de Nicolay and Pieter de Coeck. The book was owned by the English historical painter Benjamin R. Haydon (1786-1846). Haydon is chiefly known for his larger-than-life genre scenes such as Christ's Entry into Jerusalem in which he painted the portraits of his poet friends Keats, Wordsworth, Lamb and the Hunt brothers.