Plate 14: The Tragic Death of Tarquin the Elder; from volume I of Rollin's 'Istoria Romana'
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 3/8 × 18 3/16 in. (36.5 × 46.2 cm) Plate: 12 5/16 × 16 11/16 in. (31.2 × 42.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Leo Steinberg, 1984
Accession Number
1984.1189.2
About the Artist
Bartolomeo Pinelli · 1781–1835
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. ...