Musaeum Kircherianum, sive, Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu jam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum, descriptum, & iconibus illustratum : excellentissimo Domino Francisco Mariae Ruspolo antiquae urbis Agyllinae Principi

Buonanni, Filippo, 1638-1725 · 1709 · Romae : Typis Georgii Plachi caelaturam profitentis, & characterum fusoriam propè S. Marcum · 17 pictures

Musaeum Kircherianum is a 1709 Roman catalogue of the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher's cabinet of curiosities at the Collegio Romano, written by Filippo Buonanni for a patron, the Prince Ruspoli. Its engraved plates show antique funerary monuments, glass and clay vessels, and shells, drawn in crisp, evenly hatched line with labelled numbers. A designer might borrow the tidy numbered plate layouts, the fine cross-hatching that models form and shadow, and the catalogue-style arrangement of rows of objects.

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