Antique Print-TOBOLSK-SIBERIA-RUSSIA-Castellini-Berkhan-Lespinasse-Ferrario-1818

Medium: Line and aquatint etching with original hand coloring on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 36 x 26.5 cm (14.17 x 10.43 inch). Image size: 30 x 20 cm. (11.81 x 7.87 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

TOBOLSK, SIBERIA, RUSSIAN EMPIRE, FERRARIO, GIULIO FERRARIO, GIUSEPPE CASTELLINI, 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN CITY, RUSSIAN ORTHODOX ARCHITECTURE, ASIA VOLUME IV, IL COSTUME ANTICO E MODERNO, RUSSIAN CITIES ENGRAVING | PCO-A4-38

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Giulio Ferrario, Il costume antico e moderno, Asia Vol. IV, Milan, 1818, published by Antonio Fortunato Stella. Part of the larger series: ‘Il Costume Antico e Moderno …’ , by Giulio Ferrario, published in Milan in 21 volumes by Antonio Fortunato Stella in 1827 (first edition, second issue). The 17 volumes of the first issue were published sequentially between c. 1815/1816 until 1826 after first being issued in 143 weekly installments. 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). 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.

Reference: Ferrario: Il costume antico e moderno; Servolini 1955; Davoli 2000.

Biography engraver: Luigi Rossi (1764-1824), Italian engraver, draughtsman, and printmaker, known for his architectural and archaeological plates. He worked extensively for Ferrario’s encyclopedic Il costume antico e moderno.

Biography artist: Giuseppe Castellini was an Italian engraver active in the late 18th and early 19th century. Based in Milan, he contributed to many volumes of Ferrario’s encyclopedic work Il costume antico e moderno, producing detailed architectural and ethnographic prints of Europe, Asia, and beyond. Giulio Ferrario (1767-1847), Italian scholar, bibliographer, and publisher. Director of the Biblioteca Braidense and compiler of Il costume antico e moderno, a vast encyclopedic ethnographic work. 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.