Il Capraro di Tivoli

Il Capraro di Tivoli is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli . The inscriptions appear at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the left, “ Pinelli dis. e inc ”; in the center, the title “ Il Capraro di Tivoli ”; on the left, “ Roma 1819 ”.

The state of preservation is good, but the artwork presents some colored stains spread on the margins, especially on the right one, and some fungal foxings.

The artwork was published in the volume Fagiolo M., Marini M., Bartolomeo Pinelli 1781-1835 e il suo tempo , Rome, 1983, s. p. (293), repr.

This beautiful engraving belongs to a portfolio published in 1823 called Nuova Raccolta di Cinquanta Costumi De’ Contorni di Roma compresi diversi fatti di briganti , one of the richest and most beautiful collections of engravings by Bartolomeo Pinelli . He was an important Roman artist, engraver, painter, and ceramist, famous for producing drawings and prints about the history and customs of Rome and the region Lazio, fundamental for the ethnographic knowledge of that territory.

The artwork is amusing and pleasant, representing a moment in the way of life in the surroundings of 19 ^th -century Rome, and in particular the milking of a goat.