Surviving fragments of Raimondi's second edition of I Modi in the British Museum
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Nine surviving fragments of Marcantonio Raimondi's second edition of I Modi in the British Museum[1][2][3].
They were owned in the 18th century by Pierre Jean Mariette, who described them in a letter as being already fragmentary when he acquired them.[4]. Ralph Willett bought Mariette's Marcantonio prints en bloc and the fragments can be traced from his sale through the collections of Sir Mark Sykes and Sir Thomas Lawrence to the British Museum (David Foxon, 1965).
All the engravings are attributed to Raimondi, though Jean-Frédéric Waldeck believed engraving number 1, 5 & 9 were actually by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, and engraving number 2 was by Marco Dente.
References
British Museum, inv. 1973 U. 1306/1214 215 x245 mm Provenance: Pierre-Jean Mariette; Ralph Willett[5].
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