Fabio Colonna
Phytobasanos, sive plantarum aliquot Historia (Plant Touchstone, or the History of Some Plants)

Phytobasanos, sive plantarum aliquot Historia (Plant Touchstone, or the History of Some Plants)

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Phytobasanos, sive plantarum aliquot Historia (Plant Touchstone, or the History of Some Plants)
ArtistItalian (Neapolitan), 1567–1640
AuthorItalian (Neapolitan), 1567–1640
CultureItalian
Titles
  • Phytobasanos, sive plantarum aliquot Historia (Plant Touchstone, or the History of Some Plants)
Date1592
MediumBound book with 37 etchings
DimensionsClosed: 8 1/16 × 6 1/16 x 3/4 in. (20.4 × 15.4 x 1.9 cm)
Open: 8 1/16 × 11 1/4 x 3/4 in. (20.4 × 28.6 x 1.9 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.2013.4
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ProvenancePeck,' 1807 from inscription on flyleaf; '27.5.55 CB' inscribed above; sold through [Walter Schatzki, 1964]; purchased by Charlotte and Arthur Vershbow, Newton, Massachusetts; [Christie's, New York, Sale 2800, The Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow, Part Three: The Baroque and Rococo Periods, June 20, 2013, lot 471]; [Susan Schulman Printseller, New York]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2013.

Exhibition History"Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, pp. 273-276, no. 143.
Catalogue raisonnéMortimer 1974, no. 130 Hunt 1958, vol. 1, no. 165

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