Letter Signed ‘Raphael Morghen’, to Messrs. W,J.Trauenholz in Nuremberg, supplying a large quantity of engravings following their order, stating his terms, and hoping his correspondents will approve of his choices de MORGHEN, Raphael

London: William MacKenzie, circa 1850.. Stipple and line engraving. 27 x 18 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges.

Signed and titled below: Pietro Ermini disegnò / Niccolò Palmerini incise / Raffaello Morghen diresse', followed by 'Madonna Laura'.Portrait of Laura bust-length, turned to the left with a book in her hand. Wearing a medallion with three pearls.[NL] De Italiaanse humanist Fransesco Petrarca (1304-1374) was verliefd op Madonna Laura (mogelijk een fictieve figuur), een rijke, gehuwde vrouw die hij ontmoet zou hebben op Goede Vrijdag 6 april 1327. Zijn gedichten voor haar worden Petrarkisme genoemd, een stroming in de liefdespoëzie van de Europese Renaissanceliteratuur. Engraving on paper 470 x 320 mm. With visible horizontal fold. Printed on heavy quality paper.

Roma: Volpato et Morghen Sculp. et Vend, 1780. Unbound. Good. Copperplate engraving. Measures approximately 12.5" x 11.25" (to the plate mark). Engraved by the famous Italian printmakers Raphael Morghen and Giovanni Volpato, after a painting by Pier Francesco Mola. This scene of an infant satyr raising a glass of wine filled to the brim illustrates a passage in the 6th elegy of Tibullus (Book 3). Morghen, a child prodigy and student of Volpato, established himself as one of Europe's most famous engravers by the age of twenty. Old dampstain on the upper left corner that pervades only about an inch into the image, a few small tears to the edges, else good or better. *Halsey* 19.