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MANETTI, Saverio. Prints

Italian, 1723-1785

Francesco Saverio Manetti also spelt Xaviero or Xaverio Manetti (12 November 1723 – 12 November 1785) was an Italian physician, botanist and ornithologist. Among his works is the treatise on birds, Ornithologia methodice digesta or Storia naturale degli uccelli (1776). The plant genus Manettia was named in his honour by Carl Linnaeus. Manetti was born in Brozzi to Giovanni Bernardo and Maria Teresa Nesiscolt of Prague. His early studies were in Florence and later at Pisa where he studied botany under Pier Antonio Micheli. He graduated in medicine in 1745 and worked in Florence. In 1758 he joined the National Medical College where he studied anatomy under Antonio Cocchi (1695–1758), conducting the autopsy of Cocchi. Manetti was Professor of Botany of the "Società Botanica Fiorentina", a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, a Fellow of the Royal Society, learned societies in Göttingen and Montpellier, an Accademico dell'Istituto di Bologna and he maintained scientific contacts with the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus and with the main scientific circles of the second half of the 18th century. He was supervisor of the Orto Botanico di Firenze in Florence from 1749 to 1782 succeeding to Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti and Secretary of the Accademia dei Georgofili. With remarkable organizational effort, he secured the publication of Storia naturale degli uccelli, Natural History of the birds, a monumental work in five volumes illustrated with 600 hand-coloured engravings based on watercolor paintings. The book was commissioned by Maria Luisa, Grand duchess of Tuscany and the first volume was dedicated to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo. The third volume was dedicated to Ferdinando di Brobone and the fourth to Giorgio Nassau Clavering. The engravings were made by Tuscan abbot and engraver Lorenzo Lorenzi and Violante Vanni who had studied under British engraver Robert Strange. Engraving was an unusual profession for women in Florence during the period.

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Creator: MANETTI, Saverio.
Pair of Engravings With Hand-colored Ducks by Saverio Manetti 18th Century
By Violante Vanni, Saverio Manetti
Located in Milano, MI
Set of 2 hand-colored avian engravings, Italian, c. 1770, with figures of wild ducks, the mallard and the cicada, taken from Xavier Manetti's Natural History of Birds. They are on v...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique MANETTI, Saverio. Prints

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Pair of Engravings With Hand-colored Ducks by Saverio Manetti 18th Century
Pair of Engravings With Hand-colored Ducks by Saverio Manetti 18th Century

Pair of Engravings With Hand-colored Ducks by Saverio Manetti 18th Century

$1,550 / set
Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770
By Violante Vanni, Saverio Manetti
Located in Milano, MI
Saverio Manetti Salvatica Duck Or Cicalona Circa 1770 Saverio Manetti's table describing the Salvatica Duck, also known in Tuscany as Cicalona or Canapiglia Male, is an important ill...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique MANETTI, Saverio. Prints

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Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770
Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770

Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770

$775
Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770
By Violante Vanni, Saverio Manetti
Located in Milano, MI
Saverio Manetti hand-watercolor etching depicting Anatra Salvatica ca. 1770 taken from the work Storia Naturale degli Uccelli trattata con metodo ed adornata di figure intagliate in ...
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Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Antique MANETTI, Saverio. Prints

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Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770
Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770

Saverio Manetti Anatra Selvatica Italian Etching Acquarellata a Mano ca 1770

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