Graphics with popular folk costumes from the 19th century

Pinelli Bartolomeo Sei Prints 1831 Graphics of folk costumes, a collection of six maps in modern frames, in good condition, depicting costumes and scenes from the life of the common people in Rome. Specifically, the prints illustrate:

Butcher selling pork on the streets of Rome, commonly known as Tripparolo;

Seraglio peasant with his wife going to the Santo Spirito hospital;

Bagpipers at the Marcellus Theatre;

Wagons loaded with coal;

Bread distribution among farmers at the Flavian Amphitheatre;

Goat seller.

Each card at the bottom left: B. Pinelli dis. and in. 1831. On the right: Rome, Calcografia Generale.

His graphics illustrated folk costumes of Italian peoples, great masterpieces of literature, as well as themes from the history of Rome, Greece, the Napoleonic era, and others. The most recurring theme is Rome, its inhabitants, monuments, ancient and modern city. Among his students was the well-known portraitist from Gorizia, Giuseppe Tominz.

His illustrative work, beyond its artistic value, also holds significant documentary importance for the ethnography of Rome, Italy, and Switzerland. In addition to a repertoire of images dedicated to Roman costumes, he illustrated many books, creating cycles inspired by the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, and Greco-Roman mythology. Works in which the strongest influence of Neoclassicism is visible.

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