Engravings by and after Annibale Carracci, Agostino Carracci and Lodovico Carracci. Album compiled by Pietro Fancelli.

[Bologna], [between 1600 and 1699 - 1850]

1 album (100 leaves) : engravings and etchings ; album 46.7 x 34.7 cm

Inscription inside front pastedown: "Proviene dalla collezione dal professore di pittura Pietro Fancelli. Osserva sopratutto alle pag. 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 37, 53, 54, 97, 99. V. Carracci (dei)"

Fol. 1 colour etching in the manner of Scacciati and Mulinari: Minerva as queen of arts pointing to a tripartite triumphal arch

Fol. 2 Personification of charity ("LC. in., Gioseffo Rolli f.")

Fols. 3-7 removed

Fol. 8 "L'onore. Di Lodovico Carracci nel Palazzo Senatorio Marescalchi. Carl'Antonio Pisarri deli: et inci: Ferdinando Pisarri forma in Bologna"

Fol. 9 removed

Fols 10-11 etchings by O. Dauphin after the Carracci. Fol 10r above: Flora (a woman with a wreath and a cherub with a tambourine, after Lodovico (Malafarina no. 175), lettering "L. Carracci inv. Olivier dofin ex."; fol. 10r below, Venus and Cupid, lettering "Ani. Carrac inv. Olivier dofin ex.", after Annibale (Malafarina no. 61; Borea and Mariani XV, p. 44). Fol. 11 above, Galatea after Lodovico, lettering "L. carracc. inv. Olivier dofin ex."; fol. 11 below, Pluto, lettering "Ag. Carrac. inv. Olivier dofin ex."

Fols. 12-15 various prints (one on fol. 13r with note dated after 1858)

Fols. 16-21 (fol 20r missing) folding plates by An. Bresciani after paintings by Lodovico in Piacenza

Fol. 22 half cut out

Fol. 23 the Trojan horse, by L. Capponi after Lodovico

Fol. 24 Christ washing hands with assistance of angels

Fol 25 left: the Virgin with the Christ child and the Infant Baptist ("L. Caracio fecit" on left), Bartsch , vol. 18 p. 25??; right: the Virgin with angels ("Lo. C" on left)

Fol. 26 missing

Fol 27 etching by Mitelli after Agostino

Fol 28 left, title page of Memorie de' ... Gelati (Bohlin (Agostino) no. 165 copy 1 by Lorenzo Tinti); 28r right, portrait of Giovanni Gabrielli by Agostino (Bohlin (Agostino) no. 212)

Fol. 29 Apollo descending to kill the Python (Bohlin (Agostino) no. 154)

Fol 30 the Harmony of Spheres, etching by Agostino Carracci (Bohlin (Agostino) no. 153)

Fol. 31 missing

Fol. 32 The Holy Family, etching with tone in yellow after Agostino

Fol. 33 Bohlin (Agostino) no. 38 state II

Fol. 34 removed

Fol. 35 Adoration of the shepherds, etching by G. Mariotti after painting by Agostino in S. Bartolomeo di Reno

Fol. 36 Hercules and Cacus by C.A Pisarri after Agostino

Fol. 37 removed

Fols. 38-49 etchings after Bernardo Castello's illustrations to La Gierusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, Genoa 1590 (Bohlin (Agostino) nos. 155-164), including the title-page by Agostino (Bohlin (Agostino) no. 155) and other prints, some by G. Franco

Fol. 50 Virgin with saints (two impressions, one loose) by Mitelli after Annibale (Malafarina no. 42)

Fols. 51-53 removed

Fol. 55 death of Dido by G.M. Viani after Annibale (Malafarina no. 63; Borea and Mariani XVII.1, p. 46)

Fol. 56 the Holy Family with Saint Claire holding a ciborium, etching attributed to Guido Reni after Annibale Carracci, lettering "Anibale Caracci fect Nicolas van Aelst formis" (Bartsch, vol. 18, Guido Reni no. 50; Borea and Mariani no. A20, p. 270)

Fol. 57 above The Holy Family after Annibale Carracci (Bohlin (Annibale) no. 11, one of the copies etched in reverse, though the size (border 16.4 x 22.6 cm.) does not match any of the five copies listed by Bohlin)

Fol. 57 below, the Holy Family (La Madonna della scodella) after Annibale Carracci (Bohlin (Annibale) no. 20, one of the copies engraved in reverse, though the size (border 12.1 x 15.5 cm.) and the lack of lettering do not match any of the fifteen copies listed by Bohlin)

Fol. 58 Pietà by Olivier Dauphin after Annibale Carracci (Malafarina no. 115)

Fol. 59 Lupercalia, print after one of the paintings in the Palazzo Magnani, Bologna (Malafarina no. 49O, mentioning a print by C.A. Pissarri [Pisarri], possibly this one), with added dedication plate by Domenico Bonaveri [Bonavera]

Fols 60-67, men wrestling with malign women, engravings by G.M. Mitelli after frescoes by Annibale in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna (Borea and Mariani II.14-21, pp. 8-12)

Fol. 68 Bacchus seated, etching by C.A. Pisarri after Annibale "nel Palazzo Senatorio Magnani" (Borea and Mariani A48)

Fol. 69 the fight around Cassandra, manuscript inscription on verso ("crinibus e templo trahitur"), etching after a fresco by Annibale in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna (Malafarina 16C)

Fol. 70 Venus escorting Aeneas, etching by G.M. Mitelli after a fresco by Annibale in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna (Malafarina 16D)

Fol. 71-78 other episodes in the Aeneid, etchings by G.M. Mitelli after frescoes by Annibale in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna, published under the title L'Enea vagante: pitture dei Caracci intagliate e dedicate al Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo Medici, Rome 1663 (The illustrated Bartsch, 42: 321-341)

Fols 79-92 episodes in the history of Rome, etchings (fol. 82 with publisher's imprint by Giuseppe Fabbri, fol. 92 engraved by Domenico Bonaveri) after frescoes by Annibale in the Palazzo Magnani, Bologna

Fol. 93 Hercules at the crossroads, etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci (Malafarina no. 86)

Fol. 94 Odysseus and the sirens, etching by N. Mignard after a fresco by Annibale Carracci in the Camerino Farnese, Rome (Malafarina no. 87N; Borea and Mariani XXVIII.4, p. 71)

Fol. 95 Lot and his daughters, with the destruction of Sodom, print by D. Bonavera after A. Carracci (Borea and Mariani A2, p. 260 (painting and painter unidentified)

Fol. 96 a woman rescuing twin babies from a river, engraving by C. Fantetti after Hieronymus Trudon after Annibale Carracci

Fol. 97 the charity of Saint Roch, etching attributed to Guido Reni after Annibale Carracci (Bartsch, vol. 18, Guido Reni no. 53; Borea and Mariani XXVII.1, p. 65)

Fol. 98 Christ and the Samaritan woman, etching by Ludovico Mattioli after Annibale Carracci (Malafarina no. 91)

Fol. 99 Christ and the Samaritan woman, etching attributed to Guido Reni after Annibale Carracci (Bartsch, vol. 18, Guido Reni no. 52; Malafarina no. 72)

Fol. 100 the Assumption of the Virgin by G.M. Mitelli after Annibale Carracci (Malafarina no. 64)

A record of works of the Carracci in Bologna (with a few in other places). Some of the prints are by the Carracci, while others are executed after the Carracci by other artists including: Domenico Bonaveri, Antonio Bresciani, Lorenzo Capponi, Olivier Dauphin, Cesare Fantetti, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Carl'Antonio Pisarri, Guido Reni, Lorenzo Tinti and Giovanni Maria Viani. Fols 38-49 contain Bernardo Castello's illustrations to La Gierusalemme liberata di Torquato Tasso, Genoa 1590 (22 engravings, including variants of the same plate). The creator of the album, Pietro Fancelli, attended the Accademia Clementina in Bologna where he studied in particular the Carracci and their school (Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 44, pp. 551-553)

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Würzburg, 1920-1922

Gianfranco Malafarina, L'opera completa di Annibale Carracci, Milano 1976

Diane DeGrazia Bohlin, Prints and related drawings by the Carracci family: a catalogue raisonné, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979

Evelina Borea e Ginevra Mariani, Annibale Carracci e i suoi incisori, Roma 1986

Wellcome Collection 29876i