Cavalcature che conducono le bestie bovine in Roma, per macellare (Cattle Driven to the Slaughter in Rome) (Plate 16)

Cavalcature che conducono le bestie bovine in Roma, per macellare (Cattle Driven to the Slaughter in Rome) (Plate 16) by Bartolomeo Pinelli

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.4 x 30.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 in.) sheet: 26.3 x 39.9 cm (10 3/8 x 15 11/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Accession Number

1999.111.24

About the Artist

Bartolomeo Pinelli · 17811835

Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835) was an Italian artist and printmaker who became one of the most popular and prolific chroniclers of Roman popular life in the early nineteenth century. Born in Rome, he trained at the Accademia di San Luca and demonstrated precocious talent in drawing and sculpture, though it was as an engraver and illustrator that he found his true vocation and his widest audience. ...

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