18th C Italian Engraving Page Classical Busts Giovanni Morghen Giuseppe Aloja

Original 18th-century Italian copperplate engraving, removed from a scholarly antiquarian volume and professionally framed at a later date. This plate is numbered Pag. 75 and presents four classical bust portraits within circular medallions, derived from ancient Roman models.

The plate carries multiple period credits:

Giovanni Morghen — credited "Reg. Disegn." (royal draftsman / designer)

Giuseppe Aloja — credited "Reg. Incis." (royal engraver)

These attributions indicate official academic or court-sanctioned production, typical of late-18th-century Italian publications devoted to classical antiquities, sculpture, and iconography. The figures appear as idealized Roman busts—likely allegorical, mythological, or modeled after ancient statuary—rendered in fine neoclassical engraving.

A proportional scale labeled "palmo Napoletano / palmo Romano" appears beneath the images, a hallmark of scholarly reference plates intended for study and comparison rather than decoration alone.

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