L'Imperiale e reale galleria Pitti
A large folio plate book, L'Imperiale e reale galleria Pitti, issued in Florence in 1837 by the Galleria Palatina and printed by the Galileiana press for collectors and art students. Its engraved plates reproduce paintings from the Pitti Palace collection, each rotated on the page with an Italian caption in small capitals beside it. Designers can take from them a clear model of early nineteenth-century reproductive engraving: dense hatched shading, mythic and classical groupings of figures, and generous white margins that frame each plate.
