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BERRETTINI, Pietro (called "Pietro da Cortona"). Tabulae anatomicae... Rome: Venanti Monaldini, 1788.
BERRETTINI, Pietro (called "Pietro da Cortona"). Tabulae anatomicae... Rome: Venanti Monaldini, 1788. 2 o (442 x 312 mm). Title printed in red and black. 27 engraved plates printed in sepia by Luca Ciamberlino after drawings by Berrettini, engraved head- and tail-pieces. (Some occasional pale spotting.) 19th-century half vellum. Provenance : Ira M. Rutkow (pencil signature on rear flyleaf). Second edition. Francesco Petraglia removed the intrusive and distracting figures which had been added to Berrettini's plates when they were first published in 1741, returning them to a state much more closely resembling Berrettini's original drawings. However it is doubtful that Petraglia saw the originals since Hamilton sent Berretini's drawings to Hunter in 1772. Probably because he did not see the original drawings, Petraglia retained the seven plates from the first edition that were not drawn by Berrettini. In his introduction Petraglia provides a history of the engraved plates, and attributes the engraving for the first time to Luca Ciamberlano whose monogram appears on plates I and IV. Ciamberlano, a great engraver who worked in Rome until 1641, would have necessarily engraved the plates for a book that was intended to be published during Berrettini's lifetime. Choulant-Frank, pp. 235-39; Norman, The Anatomical Plates of Pietro da Cortona (1986); Roberts & Tomlinson, pp. 272-79.