The street bricklayer

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli
Italy
1634 – 1718

after Annibale Carracci
Italy
1560 – 1609

The street bricklayer
plate 10 from the series The Arts of the street in Bologna (Di Bologna lArti per via)
1660
etching on paper
Place made
Bologna, Italy
Medium
etching on paper
Dimensions
28.3 x 19.7 cm (plate & sheet)
Credit line
Bequest of David Murray 1908
Accession number
084G2127
Signature and date
Signed in plate l.r., "G M M" in monogram. Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
B.XIX.301.121: Bertiarelli 258; Varignana (1978) 10
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

     Giuseppe Maria Mitelli was a Bolognese printmaker, painter and sculptor who was also a prolific printmaker. His prints encompass a wide range of popular imagery, including tarot cards, folklore and prints depicting the cycle of life. Mitelli’s The Arts of the Streets of Bologna comprises forty-one etchings depicting the street vendors, itinerant workers and tradesmen of the city. The series is loosely based on drawings made by Annibale Carracci in the late 1580s and early 1590s. Annibale’s imagery was inspired by a popular broadsheet tradition, known as the Cris di Paris, which appeared in France around 1500. The prints depicted rows of different types of itinerant workers with a text of their ‘cry’ as well as the tools of their trade.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.
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    etching on paper
    Accession no: 084G2127