Carlo Labruzzi fece a Roma 1794
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Rome
Language: ita
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Peasants; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Roman Antiquities; Classical antiquities
Other titles: Album
Notes: Plates numbered 1-20 in top right corner: 20 numbered aquatints (etching and aquatint printed in reddish brown ink with plate tone) that depict figures/peasants amidst Roman blocks in landscapes.

Title and date from plate 1.

"Labruzzi 'spent his early years as a painter at Nuremburg but had returned before 1780 to Rome, where he was elected a member of the Congregazione dei Virtuosi dei Pantheon. In 1786 he became a member of the Accademia di S. Luca. He painted portraits, genre scenes, and altarpieces but was best known for his landscapes, which are in the style of Claude {Lorrain; 1600-1682], though with the characteristically lighter colours of the 18th century. In the 1780s he was particularly popular with British Grand Tourists in Rome. In 1789 Sir Richard Colt Hoare, or whom he made souvenir drawings and watercolours, invited Labruzzi to accompany him along the Appian Way, following the itinerary outlined by the Roman poet Horace in his description of a journey made to Brindisi in 38 BC. Labruzzi was to make drawings of the remains of the a655ncient tombs and villas along their route. In the event the enterprise was cut short by inclement weather and Labruzzi's ill health, [sic] but 226 pen-and-wash drawings were completed and bound into 5 volumes by Colt Hoare. A second set of drawings, which are less highly finished and perhaps served as preparatory studies, were kept by Labruzzi. Labruzzi did not provide a purely topographical record of the Classical remains but represented the overgrown ruins in a picturesque and idealized manner ... In 1854 Labruzzi was appointed director of the Accademia di Bella Arti in Perugia, a position he held for three years until his death' (Oxford Grove Art)"--bookseller Bernard Quaritch datasheet.

Former owner is possibly Albert Condamin (1862-1940), the French Catholic intellectual, friend, and collaborator of the exegete and theologian Marie-Joseph Lagrange; A. Condamin in script twice on front pastedown and Albert Condamin in script on back pastedown.

"First edition of these ... etchings by the Italian painter, draughtsman and engraver Carlo Labuzzi (1748-1817): ... [a] remarkable work of the Grand Tour era...."--bookseller Bernard Quaritch Ltd. datasheet.

Lib. copy is 19 x 27 cm.