Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784)

Giovanni Volpato

Genii placing bust of a man on an engraved pedestal before a shining sun: AL / GENII IMMIGRIALE / DEL / RE CATTOLICO / CAROL TERZO / QUESTA SUA PERA / e se medesimo / OFFRE E CONSACRA / il Conte Gazola. Below several attributes: a horn, book, palette and brushes, etc. Above a goddess on a cloud before a colonnaded structure.

Credit: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt

c. 1765

Etching, engraving on off-white laid paper

1938-57-219-b

Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020