Three boxes in the form of leather-bound books containing casts of intaglios and cameos from Antiquity in fine plaster (scajola).
Museo Vaticano: 47 casts.
Museo Capitolino: 58 casts out of 59.
Museo Sommariva: 26 casts.
Each box opens on both sides on a tray of numbered white plaster casts. They represent portraits of various illustrious figures and sculptures and their iconography.
Work of the Roman Workshops of the first half of the 19th century.
Accidents and missing bindings.
Catalogo di 44 Impronte in stucco, Opera Sagre and Edifici; the box opens on both sides, one side revealing the handwritten list of 44 casts on the lid and 23 casts "opere Sagre" (2 accidental casts with missing bindings) and on the other side 21 casts of Roman buildings
.
- The other, square, contains 7 casts of medals.
XIXth century. Stains.
Pietro Paoletti (1801-1847), who came to Rome in 1827, was an Italian engraver and painter with fresco training (Monte Cassino Abbey, the church of Santa Maria Formosa in
Venice, the dome of Rieti Cathedral, many Roman properties, from
Padua, Vicenza...).
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