Processione a San Pietro Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli, 1825

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Processione a San Pietro is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom, inside the … Read more Processione a San Pietro is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions appear at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. Not signed. The inscription ''Solenne Processione solita farsi nella Basilica Vaticana nel giorno del Corpus Dominiove il S. Padreporta il SSmo Sacramento'' The state of preservation is good. The artwork was published in the volume Fagiolo/Marini Bartolomeo Pinelli 1781-1835 e il suo tempo, Rome, 1983, s p 293 , rear This beautiful engraving belongs to a portfolio published in 1823 called Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi De’ Contorni di Roma compresi diversi fatti di briganti, one of the richest and most beautiful collections of engravings by Bartolomeo Pinelli. He was an important Roman artist, engraver, painter, and ceramist, famous for producing drawings and prints about the history and customs of Rome and the region Lazio, fundamental for the ethnographic knowledge of that territory. The artwork is amusing and pleasant, representing a moment in the way of life in the surroundings of 19th-century Rome, and in particular the milking of a goat. See less