Name: Antique Print-MURAL PAINTING-CHARLES THE BALD-THRONE-6-Bottigella-Ferrario-1823
SKU: PCO-16984
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Antique Print-MURAL PAINTING-CHARLES THE BALD-THRONE-6-Bottigella-Ferrario-1823

€125.00

‘TAVOLE VI. CARLO IL CALVO SEDUTO SUL TRONO DA UNA MINIATURA DI UN MSS. DELLA BIBLIOTECA DI COLBERG. ‘

– (Plate 6. Charles the Bald seated on a throne, from a miniature of an MSS. From the Colberg library ) The image depicts Charles the Bald the Emperor of the Carolingian Empire
and King of Italy on the throne, and standing. He was in fact not bald, he rather very hairy. An alternative or additional interpretation is based on Charles’ initial lack of a regnum. “Bald” would in this case be a tongue-in-cheek reference to his landlessness, at an age where his brothers already had been sub-kings for some years.

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Description

Medium: Line & aquatint etching with original hand colouring on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 33.4 x 23.9 cm (13.15 x 9.41 inch). Image size: 23.2 x 19.7 cm. (9.13 x 7.76 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. With original blindstamp. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MURAL PAINTING-RELIGIOUS-CATHEDRAL-MONZA-KING-ITALY | PCO-A3F-11

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Il Costume Antico e Moderno …, ltaliani.’ , 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 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.