Gabinetto armonico pieno d'istromenti sonori
Gabinetto armonico is a 1722 Roman catalogue of musical instruments by Filippo Buonanni, a Jesuit scholar, with plates engraved by Sintes and Westerhout after Spargioni and printed by Giorgio Placho for musicians and collectors. Its engraved plates show a numbered figure of a player standing full length with an instrument, captioned in Italian and framed by a double rule. A designer could draw on the stiff, dignified poses, the tidy caption banners and the costume detail of each figure.
