Print collector's quarterly (12.1925)

CASTIGLIONE’S MONOTYPES
A SUPPLEMENT
By AUGUSTO CALABI

HHEN publishing my catalogue of the known
monotypes of G. B. Castiglione in the Print
Collector’s Quarterly, October, 1923, I
wrote : “ We give here a list of seventeen
items in the hope and the conviction that many others
which are still lurking in the portfolios of public or

private collections, will come to our knowledge and be

added to this preliminary catalogue.” And now it
happens, that Mr. Campbell Dodgson communicates to
me the discovery of three monotypes in the collection
of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth.1 These

three monotypes are so typically the work of our master,
that we may at once put them into their right place in
the published preliminary catalogue. They fall into
the second group, characterised by a black ground
completely inked over, and the design scratched with
the point of a skewer, which removes the ink from the
surface, and makes the composition white on a black
ground. Thus of the whole number, fourteen prints
are on a black ground and only six on a white one ;
the reason that the latter kind are more scarce may
be that Castiglione produced a smaller number of

1 For photographs of these, as of the monotypes reproduced in 1923,
we are indebted to the generosity of Mr. John Charrington.—Ed.

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