print; book

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Object Type: print; book
Museum number: 1912,1014.133.1-91
Title: Series: Imitations of Ancient and Modern Drawings
Description: A series of ninety-one prints by Metz after drawings by Old Masters and modern artists, bound in a book; includes - a title-page after Metz - eight plates after Raphael - twenty-two after Parmigianino - one after Vasari - one after Palma Giovane - two after Rubens - seven after Michelangelo - one after Carlo Cignani - one after Perino del Vaga - two after Raffaellino da Reggio - one after Rembrandt - one after Lodovico Carracci - one after Titian - six after Polidoro da Caravaggio - two after Benvenuto Garofaldo - one after Dürer - three after Correggio - three after Primaticcio - seven after Giulio Romano - two after La Fage - three after Battista Franco (one of the plates also includes a design after Parmigianino) - one after Federico Barocci - two after Annibale Carracci - one after Luca Cambiaso - two after Federico Zuccaro - one after Tintoretto - one after Guercino - one after Domenichino - one after Leonardo - one after Guido Reni - one after Daniele da Volterra - one after Bernini - one after Paolo Farinati Some of the plates consist of several individual designs; the album also includes a few duplicates; this is the first edition of the series, published in 1789 Aquatint, crayon-manner, etching; some printed in brown
Producer name: Print made by: Conrad Martin Metz; After: Raphael; After: Parmigianino; After: Giorgio Vasari; After: Palma Giovane; After: Peter Paul Rubens; After: Michelangelo; After: Carlo Cignani; After: Perino del Vaga; After: Raffaellino da Reggio; After: Rembrandt; After: Lodovico Carracci; After: Titian; After: Polidoro da Caravaggio; After: Benvenuto Garofalo; After: Albrecht Dürer; After: Antonio Correggio; After: Francesco Primaticcio; After: Giulio Romano; After: Raymond La Fage; After: Battista Franco; After: Federico Barocci; After: Luca Cambiaso; After: Federico Zuccaro; After: Jacopo Tintoretto; After: Guercino; After: Domenichino; After: Leonardo da Vinci; After: Guido Reni; After: Daniele da Volterra; After: Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini; After: Paolo Farinati; Published by: Conrad Martin Metz
School/style: British; Italian; Flemish; Dutch; German; French
Production date: 1789
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; crayon-manner
Dimensions: Height: 575 millimetres (sheet size); Width: 470 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This is from a series of plates by Metz reproducing drawings by Old Masters and modern artists. The first edition of this set was published in 1789, the second in 1798. The BM holds a complete set, see 1855,0609.812-978; for a bound album of the second edition, see 1936,1105.16.1-139. While many plates were added to the second edition, it also lacks a few plates which were present in the first edition. The prints are all printed on the pages of the book, which is bound in red leather. A gilted inscription lettered on the spine reads "Imitations of drawings by C. M. Metz". The attributions are given as they appear on the plates. They do not necessarily reflect recent scholarship.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satyr; old testament; figure study; virgin and child with baptist; christian saint/martyr; mystic marriage of st catherine; battle; ancient history; sacrifice; procession; new testament; birth of virgin; angel; classical deity; classical mythology; sibyl; resurrection; arrest in garden; christ at emmaus; death; weaver/weaving; horse/ass; crucifixion; pieta
Associated names: Representation of: Silenos; Representation of: St Jerome; Representation of: Virgin Mary; Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: St John the Baptist (Prodromos); Representation of: St Catherine of Alexandria; Representation of: Icarus (?); Representation of: Constantine the Great; Portrait of: Marie de Médicis, Queen and Regent of France; Representation of: Holy Family; Representation of: Apostles; Representation of: Zeus/Jupiter; Representation of: Hephaistos/Vulcan; Representation of: Thetis; Representation of: Adam; Representation of: Eve; Representation of: Pope Julius II; Representation of: Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara; Representation of: Hera/Juno; Representation of: Hermes/Mercury; Representation of: King David; Representation of: Goliath; Representation of: St Francis of Assisi; Representation of: Prometheus; Representation of: Adonis; Representation of: Jephthah; Representation of: Perseus; Representation of: Herakles/Hercules; Representation of: Nemean Lion; Associated with: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Associated with: Benjamin West; Associated with: George III, King of the United Kingdom; Associated with: Richard Dalton; Associated with: Richard Cosway; Associated with: Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet; Associated with: Richard Payne Knight; Associated with: Paul Sandby; Associated with: William Hodges; Associated with: Robert Udny
Associated places: Associated with: Sistine Chapel
Associated events: Associated Event: Battle of the Milvian Bridge 312
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1912
Acquisition notes: Various inscriptions annotated on the title page read, respectively: "WBeechey" (in pencil), "B. Archer-Burton / Inner Temp[..]" (in brown ink); "John Stuart Callert" (in brown ink).
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1912,1014.133.1-91

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