Portraits of 17th-century painters etc. who worked in England ; use of machines designed by Jacques Besson. Engravings and etchings, ca. 1569-1809.

A "palinchrest": a book on Roman monuments and inscriptions subsequently reused as a scrapbook. The book was Marianna Dionigi, Viaggi in alcune città del Lazio che diconsi fondate dal re Saturno, Roma 1809. On fol. 1v is pasted a print of grotesque ornament, and on fol. 2r an Italian etching of the rape of Europa. On fols 2v-9v, and 11r-16r, the pages of Dionigi are covered with portraits of painters, sculptors and architects engraved by T. Chambars and A. Bannerman for an edition of Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of painting in England ... collected by the late Mr. George Vertue (the 1805 edition, entitled An illustrative supplement to Pilkington's Dictionary of painters ... principally taken from the Anecdotes of painting, etc by Horatio Walpole, London: J. Stockdale, 1805). Fols 17r-35 are covered with etchings by Androuet du Cerceau made as plates to an edition of Jacques Besson, Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, showing machines in use (between about 1569 and 1600). Fols 2r, 9v-10v contain portraits of English notables engraved by Heath. Only fol. 16v shows the original text by Dionigi