Pinelli Bartolomeo Six Prints 1831 Etchings with Popular Costumes

Pinelli Bartolomeo Six Prints 1831 Etchings with Popular Costumes, a set of six cartographies with modern frames in good condition, reproducing the customs and scenes of popular life in the city of Rome. In particular, the prints depict: A seller of pig heads on the streets of Rome, vulgarly called Tripparolo; A farmer from Saracinesco accompanied by his wife to the Santo Spirito hospital; The Pifferari near the Theater of Marcellus; Carts carrying coal; The distribution of bread to farmers inside the Flavian Amphitheater; The kid seller. Each sheet has at the bottom left: B. Pinelli dis. e inc. 1831. And on the right, Rome at the Calcografia Generale. Bartolomeo Pinelli (Rome, November 20, 1781 – Rome, April 1, 1835) was an Italian engraver, painter, and ceramist. An extremely prolific graphic artist, according to recent estimates he produced approximately four thousand engravings and ten thousand drawings. In his prints, he illustrated the customs of the Italian peoples, the great masterpieces of literature, and subjects from Roman, Greek, Napoleonic history, etc. The most recurring theme in general is Rome, its inhabitants, its monuments, the ancient city and the one contemporary to him. Among his students was the well-known Gorizia portrait painter Giuseppe Tominz. His work as an illustrator possesses, in addition to its intrinsic artistic value, significant documentary importance for the ethnography of Rome, Italy, and Switzerland. In addition to the repertoire of images dedicated to Roman costumes, he illustrated numerous books, creating cycles inspired by the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, and Greco-Roman mythology. These works most reveal the imprint of Neoclassicism. Height: 58 cm - Width: 68 cm - Depth: 2 cm Art. A1144 
Measures H x L x P 58 x 68 x 2