GROTTESCHE. SERIE DI TRE RARISSIME STAMPE. Grotesques. SERIES OF THREE VERY RARE PRINTS. The poet, the fool, the beggar. Rome, early '700.
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Description
Etchings; 3 mm plates. 302x182, 303x186, 302x178; Subjects into framed engraved, down description in verse.
Three rare etching plates depicting, emphasizing the elements of deformity and extravagance, a poet and musician, an importunate beggar, an old fool in search of fortune: the verses in eighth rhyme to comment on foot sarcastically characters. Grotesque figures are closely related to the decoration based on bizarre and fantastic grounds, born in '500 in Rome following the discovery of the wall paintings in the underground rooms of the Golden House of Nero, then called "caves." The sign reveals the skilled hand of a master engraver of the Roman school.
Nice specimen.
Three rare etching plates depicting, emphasizing the elements of deformity and extravagance, a poet and musician, an importunate beggar, an old fool in search of fortune: the verses in eighth rhyme to comment on foot sarcastically characters. Grotesque figures are closely related to the decoration based on bizarre and fantastic grounds, born in '500 in Rome following the discovery of the wall paintings in the underground rooms of the Golden House of Nero, then called "caves." The sign reveals the skilled hand of a master engraver of the Roman school.
Nice specimen.
