Raggvaglio della solenne comparsa, fatta in Roma gli otto di gennaio MDCLXXXVII. dall'illvstrissimo, et eccellentissimo signor conte di Castelmaine ambasciadore straordinario della Sagra Real Maestà di Giacomo Secondo rè d'Inghilterra, Scozia, Francia, et Ibernia, difensore della fede alla Santa Sede Apostolica, in andare pvblicamente all'vdienza della Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Innocenzo Vndecimo

Wright, John Michael, ca. 1617-ca. 1694, Lenardi, Giovanni Battista, 1656-1704, Westerhout, Arnold van, 1651-1725, Cornely, Andrea, fl. 1678, Ferri, Ciro, 1634-1689 · 1687 · In Roma : Nella stamperia di Domenico Antonio Ercole · 24 pictures

A festival book printed in Rome in 1687 by Domenico Antonio Ercole, recording the Earl of Castlemaine's embassy from James II to Pope Innocent XI, with plates designed by John Michael Wright and Giovanni Battista Lenardi and engraved by Arnold van Westerhout and Andrea Cornely for the Roman court. The engravings show state coaches, banquet tables and sugar sculpture, and Baroque cartouche corners crowded with draped figures, putti, lions and scrollwork usable as ornament fragments.

Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705 · James II, King of England, 1633-1701 · Mary, of Modena, Queen, consort of James II, King of England, 1658-1718 · Visits of state · Carriages and carts · Dinners and dining · Table setting and decoration · Sugar sculpture

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