Details

Subject(s)

• Punchinello (Fictitious character). [Browse]
• Occupations—Italy—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Costume—Italy—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Clothing and dress—19th century [Browse]

Illustrator

• Wenzel, Francesco [Browse]

Inscriber

• Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 [Browse]

Former owner

• Rossetti, Maria Francesca, 1827-1876 [Browse]

Form/​Genre

• Color lithographs—19th century
• Inscriptions—19th century
• Markings --19th century

Notes

• Title and statement of responsibility from Beall (cited below), as is English translation.
• Date based on inscription in Cotsen copy; Beall suggests a date of second quarter of 19th c.
• Lacking title page, apparently as issued (cf. Beall); the first leaf is numbered "1" at foot.
• A collection of hand-colored lithographs depicting Neoplitan street-vendors, criers, and other local people in distinctive costumes, including a tambourine seller, a watermelon seller, an egg merchant, a money changer, a public scribe, and a street theater Pulcinella.
• Illustrations: Each illustration captioned in Italian and signed "Lit. Bianchi" or "Lit.a. Bianchi"; lithographs after illustrations by Francesco Wenzel (cf. Beall).
• Cotsen copy: Most ills. with penciled English translation below printed captions in a later hand, presumably by a reader; a few have question marks in lieu of a translation.
• Cotsen copy: Leaf 12 bound in before leaf 24; leaf 13 detached.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper (recto): "Gabriel C.D. Rossetti, to his dear sister Maria, 1837 [with 1837 crossed out], 1841."

Binding note

Pub. black quarter roan, gilt-ruled on spine, with marbled paper-covered boards; light green endpapers.

References

Beall, K. F. Kaufrufe und Strassenhändler: Eine Bibliographie, p.346

Other title(s)

Neopolitan street cries

OCLC

1055623059