Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
Alternate Title(s):
Moral emblems
Published / Created:
London : Printed by Benj. Motte, MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:
[4], 81 leaves, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (326 emblems on 81 plates) ; 24 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts N7740 R513
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:181582
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : Plates by J. Kip, I.F., and H.C.; after C.G.C., and I.F.BAC : Added t.-p., engraved.BEIN 2018 36: 18th-century Cambridge panel binding with mauve and gilt floral endpapers. Label inscribed in manuscript: Brent Ely Library ... Presentation inscription dated Jan. 26th, 1921, from "Philip".Paginated by numbered openings with letterpress on versos to face illustrations on rectos. The final illustration, numbers 81, is a plate.Added engraved title page.First edition, in Italian, published at Rome, without illustrations.English short title catalogue, T154167
Exhibition History:
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Subject Terms:
Emblems -- Early works to 1800. | Symbolism in art -- Early works to 1800. | Brent Ely Library -- Bookplate.
