Abstract
The Cervello Library of the Museo del Prado contains documents related to Spanish artists and among them is a group of unpublished records with biographic and artistic information about Spanish engravers active at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th. These labels were worded around 1865-68 by Ramon Sanjuanena y Nadal, contributor to the Magazine El Arte en Espana and involve an attempt of continuation of Cean’s Dictionary in which living artists were not included. These papers record, for the first time, all information kept in the archives of the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, and anticipate what Ossorio would publish ten years later in his Galeria biografica.
Highlights
The Cervelló Library of the Museo del Prado contains documents related to Spanish artists and among them is a group of unpublished records with biographic and artistic information about Spanish engravers active at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th
Aun cuando se trata de un trabajo inédito, que apenas dio frutos al margen de algunos apuntes en El Arte en España –quizá por la muerte de Sanjuanena en 1870, fecha en la que deja de publicar en dicha revista y desaparece de las listas de suscriptores de la Sociedad de Bibliófilos Españoles, sin embargo es buena prueba de la existencia de una corriente en la historiografía española que había detectado las lagunas existentes en el estudio del grabado español desde la publicación del Ceán, que en parte se verán subsanadas por Ossorio, pero que no se verán satisfechas hasta los estudios de la siguiente centuria
Summary
The Cervelló Library of the Museo del Prado contains documents related to Spanish artists and among them is a group of unpublished records with biographic and artistic information about Spanish engravers active at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th.
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