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Instruccion para gravar en cobra, y perfeccionarse en el gravado à buril, al agua fuerte, y al humo, con el nuevo methodo de gravar las planchas para estampar en colores, à imitacion de la pintura; y un compendio historico de los mas célebres gravadores

Etched by: Unidentified artist, Spanish, 18th century
After: Abraham Bosse (French, 1604–1676)
Author: Manuel de Rueda (Spanish, 1730–1771)
Printer: Joaquin Ibarra y Marin (Spanish, 1725–1785)
1761
Place of Publication: Madrid, Spain

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 12 etchings
Dimensions Overall: 15.5 x 11 x 2.5 cm (6 1/8 x 4 5/16 x 1 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number2002.453
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1761

Catalogue Raisonné Palau 281031
Description(Madrid: Joaquin Ibarra, 1761) Octavo; 131 leaves, plus plates; contemporary [?] limp vellum.

Illustrations of engraving and etching tools and methods of producing and printing.
ProvenanceOwnership inscription dated 1923 [... Maria Morania?]; Eleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA (curator of prints, MFA); by whom bequeathed to MFA Oct. 23, 2002.