Frontespizio della Istoria Romana incisa all'acqua Forte, da Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano 1818. In mezzo alle rovine del Foro, Roma mi apparve nella sua maestrosa dignitą, e grandezza.
Pinelli inv. e inc.
[Rome, 1819.]
Etching. 315 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"), with large margins.
The artist, Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), stands in the Roman Forum, with a figure of Rome holding a shield decorated with Romulus and Remus sucking the she-wolf. This was the frontispiece to Pinelli's series of 100 plates illustrating the the history of Republican Rome, as told in Charles Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'.
[Ref: 62145] £180.00
[Rome, 1819.]
Etching. 315 x 425mm (12½ x 16¾"), with large margins.
The artist, Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), stands in the Roman Forum, with a figure of Rome holding a shield decorated with Romulus and Remus sucking the she-wolf. This was the frontispiece to Pinelli's series of 100 plates illustrating the the history of Republican Rome, as told in Charles Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'.
[Ref: 62145] £180.00