Bartolomeo Pinelli, Popular Costumes, 1831, Etchings, Framed, Set of 6 for sale at Pamono

Pinelli Bartolomeo Sei Stampe 1831 Etchings with Popular Costumes lot composed of six maps with modern frames in good condition and reproducing the customs and scenes of popular life of the city of Rome. In particular the prints portray:

Seller of pigs’ heads on the streets of Rome commonly known as Triparolo;

Farmer from Saracinesco accompanied by his wife to the Santo Spirito hospital;

The pipers at the Teatro di Marcello;

Wagons loaded with coal;

Distribution of bread to farmers inside the Flavian Amphitheatre;

The goat seller.

Each sheet bottom left: B. Pinelli dis. and inc. 1831. And on the right Rome at the General Chalcography. In good condition, modern frames and brown passe-partout

Bartolomeo Pinelli (Rome, 20 November 1781 Rome, 1 April 1835) was an Italian engraver, painter and ceramist.

An extremely prolific graphic artist, according to recent estimates he produced around 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 contemporary one. He had among his students the well-known Gorizia portraitist Giuseppe Tominz.

His work as an illustrator has, in addition to its intrinsic artistic value, a significant documentary significance for the ethnography of Rome, Italy and Switzerland. In addition to the repertoire of images dedicated to Roman customs, he illustrated numerous books, creating cycles inspired by the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greco-Roman mythology. Works that most reveal the imprint of neoclassicism.