Giuseppe Magpherson Pitt. nato in Firenze nel 1720, morto nel 1792. [graphic]

Description

Title: Giuseppe Magpherson Pitt. nato in Firenze nel 1720, morto nel 1792. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Giuseppe Macpherson Pitt
Creator: Cecchi, Giovanni Battista, 1748 or 1749-approximately 1815, printmaker
Contributor: Bozzolini, Carlo, 1749-, artist.
Macpherson, Giuseppe or Joseph or James, 1720-1792, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1770 and 1790?]
Publication Place: Florence?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Self-portrait of the artist, perhaps in his studio, sitting in front of a desk. A miniature hangs on a small easel beside him; sculpted heads and hands, as well as a painting, hang on the walls behind him. Another sculpted head lies on the floor in the foreground
Description: Title engraved on a separate sheet mounted below image.
Printmaker Giovanni Battista Cecchi and intermediate draftsman Carlo Bozzolini identified in the Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue.
This print was apparently part of the "Serie di ritratti de' pittori che se stessi di dipinsero esistenti nella R. Galleria di Toscana," which has been dated 1770-1790. See Hamburger Kunsthalle online catalogue.
Engraved border is also printed on a separate sheet and mounted around the sheets with the image and title; for another impression with the exact same arrangement of sheets, see: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. Nr. 57533. For an impression lacking these additional sheets, see: National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D10968.
Sheets trimmed within plate marks.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1957.
Extent: 1 print : sheets 22 x 17 cm and 5 x 17 cm, mounted to 31 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian