Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia

Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli . The inscriptions are at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the left, “ Pinelli dis. e inc ”; in the center, the title “ Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia ”; on the left, “ Roma 1819 ”.

The state of preservation is good, except for some spread stains on the margins, spread fungal foxings, and the torn lower right corner of the paper.

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.