Caption
Costumes in Rome, Family from Rome, Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi de contorni di Roma, Costume prints with figures from Rome and the surrounding area, print, album page, A young man and a young woman stand before a stone wall. The man lifts up a child wrapped in cloths., printmaker: Bartolomeo Pinelli, Rome, 1819, paper, etching, height 204 mm x width 283 mm, This print is part of a series of 50 prints. The series consists of costume prints and depictions of bandits., folk costume, regional costume, city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, A monochrome line drawing shows a man seated on a low wall holding a small child up toward his face while a woman stands nearby facing them; the man wears a wide-brimmed hat, a loose shirt with rolled sleeves, and breeches with a cloak draped over the wall behind him, the child is dressed in a short gown and reaches toward the man's face, and the woman wears a long dress with a wrapped bodice and a shawl or bundle held at her waist with a headscarf and earrings. The scene is set against a background of rough stone walls with foliage and clouds sketched above, a narrow arched feature and a carved mask embedded in the masonry are visible, and there are patterned hatch marks and fine crosshatching used for shading throughout the composition.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26A75_190
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34.3Mb (7.4Mb) / 13.5in x 9.9in / 4055 x 2955 (300dpi)