Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo pittore della maestà del re Cattolico Carlo III.
A collected edition of the writings of the painter Anton Raphael Mengs, published in Bassano by the Remondini firm in 1783 and edited by José Nicolás de Azara for the Spanish court of Charles III. The picture is an engraved medallion pair, one side showing Mengs in profile beside the legend ANTONIUS RAPHAEL MENGS, the other showing a bust on a pedestal inscribed with his birth and death dates above the words PICTOR PHILOSOPHUS. Designers might take the mirrored roundel layout, the crisp profile portrait, and the Latin lettering set around the curve of the rims as a model for classical commemorative emblems.
