Andrea SCACCIATI (Florence 1725ca - 1771) "The coronation of the Virgin" Original etching and aquatint from a subject by Giovanni Battista Moroni (Albino between 1521 and 1524 - 1580ca). Beautiful specimen printed in delicate shades of olive green on laid paper with "Flute in a circle" and "AFC" countermark not found in the consulted repertoires, with large margins beyond the imprint of the plate, with minimal defects on the edges such as folds, stitches of foxing and burnishing but overall in excellent general condition. The panel comes from one of the editions of the collection entitled "Original drawings of excellent painters existing in the Royal Gallery of Florence engraved in copper with imitation of sizes and color in watercolor pen and pencil" published by Scacciati for the first time in Florence in 1766 and then on various other dates with notable extensions and the collaboration of his best pupil Stefano Mulinari. This collection was conceived and produced in handouts of ten tables each as it appears from a news item published in issue 15 of the "Gazzetta Toscana" published on April 13, 1771 and in which it reads "Mr. Andrea Scacciati skilled copper engraver and pensioner of SAR Our Sovereign in continuation of his commendable enterprise has given out the sixth series of the Drawings of the most famous Painters, which are kept in this Real Gallery. Each series of this valuable collection contains ten Drawings and is worth a Florentine sequin, and is dispensed at the shop of Iacopo Carlieri Libraio and by Mr. Scacciati himself .. ". Giovan Battista Moroni was artistically trained in the workshop of the Brescia-born painter Alessandro Bonvicino called il Moretto and produced various works of a religious nature which were clearly affected by the influence of the master; the greatest and lasting success was in portrait painting to which he devoted himself almost completely in the second phase of his life by carrying out civil and ecclesiastical commissions both at home and elsewhere with unanimous results and high appreciation. The drawing can be related to the central part of the beautiful painting "the Trinity crowning the Virgin" made in 1576 for the small Church of the Holy Trinity of Bergamo, moved in the Napoleonic period to the Church of Sant'Alessandro della Croce and recently reported the ancient splendor of a long restoration financed by a banking foundation. Bibliography: DeLillo in "Biographical Dictionary of Italians" 2012 vol.77 (Moroni) Giglioli "Tuscan engravers of the eighteenth century" Florence 1943 pag.28. LeBlanc "Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes" Paris 1889 vol.3 pag.428 n ° 8. Milesi "Dictionary of Engravers" Bergamo 1989 page 288. Regnault-Delalande "Catalog raisonné d'un choix précieux de dessins et d'une nombreuse et riche collection d'estampes anciennes et modernes .. here composoient the cabinet de feu Pierre-François Basan .." Paris 1797-98 n ° 777. Measurements in mm: 380 x 500