Lot 359 - Web Auction 99

Agostino Tofanelli, Alessandro Mochetti
Young Agrippina
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200,00 EUR
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Description

“Agrippina Giovane” (The young Agrippina) (Tav. XLVI, vol. I).

Precious Etching on copper: Hand-colored subject on black ink bottom. Designed by Agostino Tofanelli and engraved by Alessandro Mochetti.

Wonderful illustration representing the staute of Agrippina, the Roman Empress, Nero and Caligula's sister. From "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli..", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published in Rome, 1821.

It deals with two volumes of engravings showing the main antique statues collected by the Prince Borghese in his Villa in Pincio Hill. Remarkable contemporary artists like Luigi Cunego, Gio. Batta Leonetti, Pietro Bettelini, Gio. Brunetti, Giovanni Ottaviani, Angelo Campanella, Pietro Fontana contributed. Drawings are, above all, by Agostino Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis, Teodoro Matteini.
59 x 44 (foglio), 48 x 33 (image), 69 x 49 (passepartout)

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