Religiosi

Religiosi is a wonderful hand-colored etching on paper, representingi a Capuchin, a Dominican and an Augustinian friar with their typical cassocks, as the pencil inscription on the lower margin at the center points out.

This original print, etched by Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1766-1839), after the drawings by Filippo Ferrari (1814-1897), is taken from a print suite Costumi di Roma Incisi da Giò. Batt. Cipriani co' disegni del Sign. Filippo Ferrari , published in Rome in 1822. The print, colored with the gouache technique and with bright colors, has a documentary importance.

The original sheet is glued on a ivory-colored passepartout, cm 35.3 x 49.8, with two pieces of tape. The marginal little holes on the left margin reveal that this plate was bound with other sheets in a volume.

In very good conditions, with some minor signs of the time as the usual yellowing of the paper at the egdes and some minor stains.

Filippo Ferrari (Rome, 1814-1897)

After legal studies, Filippo Ferrari began his artistic career as an engraver and sculptor under the guidance of a paternal uncle. Author of a collection of civil and ecclesiastical costumes of the Papal State, he was the father of the famous Ettore Ferrari, also a painter and sculptor, an active politician of the Democratic Left.