Scena di Battaglia
Scena di Battaglia (Battle Scene) is a wonderful hand-watered etching, made in 1760 by Luigi Guidotti (Bologna, 1751 - 1800 ca.), after Francesco Antonio Simonini .
On the lower margin, below the image, the inscription " P.P.P. F.A.Simonini In. /N.13/ At Luigi Guidotti Bologna " appears.
In good conditions, except for the contemporary gouache, usual yellowing of the paper, and some light folds on the upper edge of the paper sheet. Including a white cardboard passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
This series of 34 etchings, preceded by a frontispiece, a dedicatory sheet, a white sheet, and a sheet with the portrait of the Marquis Carlo Armando Monti, the Bolognese patrician to whom this entire work was dedicated, was printed in Bologna in 1760 by Luigi Guidotti , whom had a shop "under the Schools". All the etchings represent battle scenes invented by various artists, which worked as models to be folllowed by painters and amateurs.
Scena di Battaglia (Battle Scene) is a wonderful hand-watered etching, made in 1760 by Luigi Guidotti (Bologna, 1751 - 1800 ca.), after Francesco Antonio Simonini .
On the lower margin, below the image, the inscription " P.P.P. F.A.Simonini In. /N.13/ At Luigi Guidotti Bologna " appears.
In good conditions, except for the contemporary gouache, usual yellowing of the paper, and some light folds on the upper edge of the paper sheet. Including a white cardboard passepartout: 34 x 49 cm.
A marvelous representation of cavalry that makes us still today hear the military call with the trumpet and the rumble of the running horses.
This plate is the thirteen plate from the series " Scelta di battaglie inventate e disegnate da Francesco Antonio Simonini, e da altri celebri autori per uso de' pittori, e dilettanti, fatte incidere, e dedicate al nobilissimo sign.r marchese Carlo Armando Monti patrizio bolognese ultimamente dichiarato tenente generale negli eserciti di S.M.a cristianissima da Luigi Guidotti [...], Bologna, da Luigi Guidotti librajo, e stampatore sotto alle scuole, 1760 ".
This series of 34 etchings, preceded by a frontispiece, a dedicatory sheet, a white sheet, and a sheet with the portrait of the Marquis Carlo Armando Monti, the Bolognese patrician to whom this entire work was dedicated, was printed in Bologna in 1760 by Luigi Guidotti , whom had a shop "under the Schools". All the etchings represent battle scenes invented by various artists, which worked as models to be folllowed by painters and amateurs.
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