Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Street Criers of Bologna 1660

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Title Plate
L'Arti per via - Street-criers of Bologna

1660
etching
 British Museum

In 1660 Giuseppe Maria Mitelli etched and published a suite of forty prints documenting some of the street criers to be found in mid-17th century Bologna. Curators write that "the edition in the BM is an early one, before the first as described by Bertarelli. It has a variant title which lacks any reference to Annibale Carracci (Bertarelli's first edition being 'Di Bologna l'arti per via d'Anibal Caraci.')"  The British Museum sounds slightly skeptical about the contribution of Annibale Carracci to this project. Publication was occurring  in 1660 for the first time, and this was fifty years after Annibale's death. In those fifty years his fame and the value of association with his name had dramatically increased.

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-seller of shoes 
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-seller of cakes
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-seller of cooked pears
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-porter
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-porter of animal carcasses
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Seller of water from the Rhine
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Man who winnows grain
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Man who cleans wells
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Man who chops wood
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-seller of chicken dung
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-seller of vessels
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Man who drives asses
1660
etching
British Museum

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
L'Arti per via - Street-seller of wine
1660
etching
British Museum