The Noble Pontifical Guard

The Noble Pontifical Guard is an Artwork realized in 1827 by the Engraver, Giuseppe Capparoni (Rome 1800- 1879).

Etching hand colored on ivory paper. Signed on plate and dated on the right margin. 

The artwork belongs to the "Gerarchia ecclesiastica considerata nelle vesti sagre e civili usate da quelli li quali la compongono", composed by 112 engraved and hand-colored tables, made in 1827-1828 at Giacomo Antonelli’s Corso-Roma.

The state of preservation of the artwork is good except some imperfections produced by the aging paper effect.

Giuseppe Capparoni (Rome 1800-1879) was a painter, engraver and print dealer. He made various collections of prints, whose ecclesiastical subjects are testimony of the Papacy Rome of the time.