Portico di Ottavia / Portique d'Octavie
| Reference: | S45879 |
| Author | Giovanni ACQUARONI |
| Year: | 1826 |
| Zone: | Portico d'Ottavia |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 335 x 285 mm |
€180.00
| Reference: | S45879 |
| Author | Giovanni ACQUARONI |
| Year: | 1826 |
| Zone: | Portico d'Ottavia |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 335 x 285 mm |
€180.00
Description
View taken from the work Nuova Raccolta delle principali vedute antiche e moderne dell'Alma città di Roma e sue vicinanze, engraved with engraving by Pietro and Achille Parboni and Pietro Ruga the year 1830, published by Giacomo Antonelli with imprint Roma presso Giacom.o Antonelli in Via del Corso alle Convertite num 179B.
The plates were engraved between 1825 and 1829 by several engravers including the Parboni brothers and Pietro Ruga.
Each bears the engraver's name, editorial address, and a double caption in Italian and French.
Etching, in very good condition.
Giovanni ACQUARONI (attivo prima metà del sec. XIX)
|
Copper engraver, active in the first half of the 19th century. He lacks precise personal data and lexicographers usually ignore his name. Very active since 1826, at the service of the Calcografia Camerale and private publishing in Rome (Franzetti, Cuccioni, Antonelli, Piale, Monaldini), in that year he collaborated to the New collection of one hundred main views of Rome and its surroundings, together with Pietro Parboni, Francesco Rinaldi and Pietro Ruga. In the same year he signed an Interior of the Pantheon for Antonelli, who spread it especially abroad, and he fired a Map of the vestiges of Rome according to the observations of Antonio De Romanis... by Antonio Nibby, edited by Venanzio Monaldini bookseller, from which his reputation as a cartographer is consolidated and in 1827 and 1829 he was commissioned by the Chalcography of the Chamber of Commerce to engrave two large Plants of Rome, one different from the other. But his health conditions, which had been bad for a long time, did not allow him to keep his commitment in full; therefore in May 1834, as it results from an annotation on the State of the engravers who were behind in the work of that Institute, he asked that the task be switched to a single plant, to be engraved "for the price of p(aoli) 3000 about" (it is perhaps the Plan of Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century, inserted, as anonymous, in the catalog of the Calcografia Camerale).
|
Giovanni ACQUARONI (attivo prima metà del sec. XIX)
|
Copper engraver, active in the first half of the 19th century. He lacks precise personal data and lexicographers usually ignore his name. Very active since 1826, at the service of the Calcografia Camerale and private publishing in Rome (Franzetti, Cuccioni, Antonelli, Piale, Monaldini), in that year he collaborated to the New collection of one hundred main views of Rome and its surroundings, together with Pietro Parboni, Francesco Rinaldi and Pietro Ruga. In the same year he signed an Interior of the Pantheon for Antonelli, who spread it especially abroad, and he fired a Map of the vestiges of Rome according to the observations of Antonio De Romanis... by Antonio Nibby, edited by Venanzio Monaldini bookseller, from which his reputation as a cartographer is consolidated and in 1827 and 1829 he was commissioned by the Chalcography of the Chamber of Commerce to engrave two large Plants of Rome, one different from the other. But his health conditions, which had been bad for a long time, did not allow him to keep his commitment in full; therefore in May 1834, as it results from an annotation on the State of the engravers who were behind in the work of that Institute, he asked that the task be switched to a single plant, to be engraved "for the price of p(aoli) 3000 about" (it is perhaps the Plan of Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century, inserted, as anonymous, in the catalog of the Calcografia Camerale).
|