PSYCHES ET AMORIS NUPTIAE AC FABULA A RAPHAELE SANCTIO URBINATE ROMAE IN FARNESIANIS HORTIS TRANSTYBERIM AD VETERUM AEMULATIONEM AC LAUDEM COLORUM LUMINIBUS EXPRESSA A. DORIGNY. DELINEATA ET INCISA, ET A IOANNE PETRO BELLORIO NOTIS ILLUSTRATA.

Large folio 25 x 15 inches from the margins. No binding- loose. Title and 10 PLATES by Dorigny, numbered 1 to 11. Margins of the title frayed, plates trimmed very near to the image - some spotting, plate 4 with a small old damp stain (washable), old central fold where originally bound. It can come with an additional plate 12 of the ceiling fresco in the adjoining Sala di Galatea- not here present. A valuable and very beautiful engraved record of Raphael's Cupid and Psyche frescoes, which he completed between 1516 and 1518 in the Loggia of Psyche of Agostino Chigi's Villa Farnesina in Rome. Sold as a collection of engravings. Bibliography- Berlin Katalog 4066.