Print Description
Medium: Line & aquatint etching with original hand colouring on wove (vellin) paper. Watermark: Blindstamp visible lower right.
Sheet size: 33.5 x 23.7 cm (13.19 x 9.33 inch). Image size: 25 x 15 cm. (9.84 x 5.91 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, soiling and creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
ITALIAN FASHION, 19TH CENTURY, EMPIRE STYLE, FERRARIO, GALLINA, COSTUME, TOP HATS, EMPIRE DRESS, 1822, FASHION HISTORY, PICTURA-17493 | PCO-A4-32
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From: ‘Il Costume Antico e Moderno …, ltaliani.’ (Europe, Vol. III), by Giulio Ferrario, published in Milan in 17 volumes (first issue), published sequentially between c. 1815/1816 until 1826 after first being issued in 143 weekly installments. This Italian languagee volume has the date 1823. The second issue was published in 21 volumes in 1827. The work appeared in Italian and French. Smaller size editions with smaller much less elaborate plates were published in Florence (1823-38), Naples (1831-42) and even a 16mo. editon in Livorno (1830). Original blindstamp at bottom right image. The sources used for this work are wide.
Biography engraver: Gallo Gallina (1796-1874), Italian painter, engraver, and illustrator, active in Milan and Cremona. Known for his costume plates and work for Ferrario’s monumental encyclopedic project on world customs.
Biography artist: Giulio Ferrario was founder of the ‘Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani’ and served as the director of the Braidense National Library in Milan, Italy. Artists that worked on this monumental work are: Gallo Gallina, D.K. Bonatti, A. Biasioli, L. Rossi, Paolo Fumagalli, Gaetano Zancon (1771-1816), G. Bigatti, C. Bramati, G. Gallo, C. Bottiglia, G. Castellini, Antonio Rancati (1784-1816), Vittorio Raineri, Sydney Parkinson, Castelli, A. Sanquirico (1777-1849), Angelo Monticelli (1778-1837), A.L. Rossins, Bottigella and others.
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