Hind, Arthur Mayger; British Museum / Department of Prints and Drawings; Colvin, Sidney [Editor]: Catalogue of early Italian engravings preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (1) (London: British Museum, 1910)

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represented as a crucisorm edifice richly colonnaded. Castellated buildings
stand r. and 1. of the Temple; in the rear is the boundary wall of the
Temple court.
f (i) First state : before the inscription.
.Reproduction of a somewhat injured impression in the Print Room, Berlin.
Presented by Dr. Lippmann, 1894. 4. 12. 1.
Other impression: Hamburg.
(ii) Second state: tenplvm - salomonis ■ inscribed on the frieze of the
portico.
[293 x 434] Good impression, apparently with little rework: the paper joined
perpendicularly down the middle. Watermark 13c.
Collections: Sykes, Woodburn.
Purchased 1845. 8. 25. 477.
Other impressions : Paris (B. N.), Berlin, Dresden.
Reproductions: Illustr. B. III. 9 ; B. M. Reproductions, Pt. I. 1882, No. 4; Chalc.
Soc. 1889, 8 (from an impression in the Print Room, Berlin); Lippmann,
Engravings and Woodcuts, X (1900), No. 14.
From the Rosselli inventory and the size of the plate, we may infer that
this subject was engraved on the back of the second Deluge plate (B. III. 2).
The same subject is treated, but quite differently, in a cassone picture in the
collection of the Earl of Crawford (reproduced in Colvin, Florentine Picture
Chronicle, opposite plate 69), and also in a marriage tray (desco) in that of
M. Foulc in Paris: compare the Florentine niello in the collection of Baron
Edmond de Rothschild (reproduced, G. W. Reid, Salamanca collection, 1869,
No. 6).
5. DAVID AND GOLIATH.
Zani, Encicl. Pt. II. vol. iii. p. 274.—P. v. 39, 94.—K. ii. 3.
All the centre os the composition is occupied by a battle between the
Israelites and the Philistines, horse and foot. In the foreground, centre,
Goliath lies slain upon his face. Beyond him, 1., stands David as a
young lad, holding in both hands a sword, with which he is about to cut
off the head os the giant. A group of Israelite warriors stand behind
him, watching his exploit. In the background 1. is a walled town, and
r. hills, with armed horsemen in the valley between them.
Second state : with the name david inscribed on David’s tunic, and golias
on the scabbard of the dead giant.
(a) The 1. portion only, extending to the heel of Goliath’s 1. foot: [width 280-283 mm.].
Fine early impression. Watermark 13a.
Purchased 1862. 7. 12. 120.
(b) [293 x 418] Fair impression from a somewhat worn state of the plate: the
paper joined perpendicularly down the middle : showing plate line, except r. and
upper margin r. Watermark 3c.
Collections : Hon. Rowland Winn.
Purchased 1870. 6. 25. 1051.
Other impressions : Paris (B. N.) (2nd state), Bologna (plate line visible, measuring
295 x 430), Florence.
Reproductions : Illustr. B. III. 6; B. M. Reproductions, Pt. I. 1882, No. 3.
A unique impression of a first state before the inscriptions golias and david
is in the collection of Baron Edmond de Rothschild (from Angiolini coll.;
reproduced in Gutekunst sale catalogue, No. 47, Stuttgart, 1895).
Undoubtedly the Morte di Golia, wrongly transcribed from the Rosselli
inventory by Del Badia as Morte d' Ugolin. Engraved on the back of same
plate as the Story of Moses (B. III. 3).