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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9731757, member: 79705&quot;]It turns out the Saulini family kept the sketches that they used to carve their cameos, as well as notes about the sitter, and I found the sketch of mine!! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie56" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]473964[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]473965[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. Alfred H. Perry came to the studio in December of 1860. He is listed as &quot;American nationality.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The sketches and a whole lot more were compiled by 2 historians into a book in 2006, called &quot;Tommaso e Luigi Saulini Incisori di cammei nella Roma dell&#039;Ottocento&quot; or &quot;Tommaso and Luigi Saulini Cameo engravers in nineteenth-century Rome&quot; by Francesca Barberini, Micaela Dickmann de Petra. I found it listed as a reference on a Saulini cameo entry in one of the British Museums and went hunting. Printed in Italian, in Italy but it is <a href="https://gangemi.com/prodotto/tommaso-e-luigi-saulini/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gangemi.com/prodotto/tommaso-e-luigi-saulini/" rel="nofollow">STILL AVAILABLE</a>!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]473966[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a huge 240 pgs and approx 8 x 12&quot;. It has an extensive biography of the family, including portraits and genealogy tree, cameos from different museums and private collections, and half the book is sketches of various sitters of commissioned cameos. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just got it today, so I haven&#039;t had time to read it (and doing it with a translator is gonna take longer... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie39" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />), but already it&#039;s had some interesting information. It turns out there are 4 Saulini carvers... Luigi and Tommaso Senior (brothers), and Luigi Jr. (son of Tommaso Sr.) and Tommaso Jr. (son of Luigi Jr)! Cameos signed T. Saulini are Tomasso Sr. Cameos signed L. Saulini in cursive are Luigi Sr. Signed L. Saulini in block letters are Luigi Jr. &quot;Saulini F.&quot; is as we suspected...the historians conclude are &quot;attributable to the collaborators of the Saulini studio with the probable intervention by Tommaso, Luigi Sr., or Luigi Jr.</p><p><br /></p><p>This book is really amazing. The sketches are beautiful and the insight into how cameos are made is worth it alone. There are copies available on e bay and amaz, but it is cheapest imo through the publisher. The book is 30 euros, USA shipping is 25 (cheaper if you&#039;re in europe obvs) and signing up for their newsletter gets you 5 euros off. So 50, plus a foreign transaction fee, and it got to me very quickly. I like to support a publisher directly if I can. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got to run, but I was so excited I had to post something asap! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> Now if only I had a genealogy website membership to find Mr. Perry lol...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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