Series of Cartouche Designs and Coats of Arms

Artist and engraver Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli Italian

Publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi Italian

ca. 1650–99

Not on view

These prints are part of a series of designs for cartouches and coats of arms designed and etched by Agostino Mitelli who signed the title plate "Agostino Mitelli Inven. F.". The series further contains a dedication page written by Giuseppe Longhi and dedicated to count Francesco Carlo Caprara. A second edition of this dedication page has also been inserted, which carries the publisher's information of Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi. It is followed by 11 plates of cartouche designs, some presented vertically and others horizontally. In the latter case, two prints have been pasted onto one album page.

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Title: Series of Cartouche Designs and Coats of Arms
Artist and engraver: Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli (Italian, Battidizzo (Bologna) 1609–1660 Madrid)
Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)
Publisher: Gioseffo Longhi (Italian, 1620–1691) (?)
Published in: Rome
Date: ca. 1650–99
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: 16 1/4 × 10 13/16 × 1 1/4 in. (41.2 × 27.5 × 3.2 cm)
Classifications: Books, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Object Number: 49.62.8(94-102)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Album of prints entitled "Architettura del Mitelli"

Multiple artists/makers

1600–1699

Disegni, et Abbozzi di Agostino Mitelli, Intagliati Dal Figluolo di Lui Gioseppe Maria Mitelli

Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

before 1664

Left Part of the Drawing: Floral Ornaments; Right Part of the Drawing: Half Cartouche Decorated with Leaves, Arms and a Lion, Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli Italian, Leadpoint — Left Part of the Drawing: Floral Ornaments; Right Part of the Drawing: Half Cartouche Decorated with Leaves, Arms and a Lion
Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli
mid-17th century

Design for Three Consoles Decorated with Foliage and Volutes and a Console with a Satyr Head Surmounted by Three Human Figures, Garland and Foliage, Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli Italian, Pen and brown ink over some traces of leadpoint — Design for Three Consoles Decorated with Foliage and Volutes and a Console with a Satyr Head Surmounted by Three Human Figures, Garland and Foliage
Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli
1609–60

Design for Cartouches Decorated with Sea-Shells, Garlands, Foliage, Volutes and Urns, Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli Italian, Leadpoint — Design for Cartouches Decorated with Sea-Shells, Garlands, Foliage, Volutes and Urns
Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli
1609–60

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