The Devonshire Collection of Italian Drawings (4 Volume Boxed Set): Venetian and North Italian Schools; Bolognese and Emilian Schools; Tuscan and Umbrian Schools; and Roman and Neapolitan Schools

Boxed set of four volumes. The box is missing the cover. Each volume is 10"w x 11 5/8"h and approx. 250 pages. Full black cloth boards. "The four volumes devoted to the Italian schools have detailed entries for nearly one thousand drawings from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, among them numerous reattributions and discoveries. Superbly produced and illustrated, largely in colour, they are the first part of a projected series that will cover all the drawings that have formed part of the historic Devonshire Collection, never previously catalogued in full." Some of the artists represented are Leonardo, Carpaccio, Titian, Mantegna, Pontormo, Botticelli, Andrea Del Sarto, Vasari, Raphael, Giulio Romano, Pietro De Cortona, Salvator Rosa, Correggio, Parmigianino, Il Guercino, Caracci, and more. "In addition to the catalogue there is an account of the formation of the Collection, an introduction to the schools and artists rperesented and full scholarly apparatus that enables the catalogue to be used independently of the other volumes."