Italian Aquatint ( 1804-05)

View of the Temple of the Cough (Tempio della Tosse) at Tivoli (1804-05), original aquatint, sheet is 30 cms x 22.7 cms, condition: very good.

The artist, Angelo Uggeri (1754 - 1837) was an Italian abbot, graphic artist, and antiquarian. Born in Lombardy. He studied art and architecture at Cremona; but joined the ecclesiastical profession. from 1788 worked in Rome. In 1823, Pope Leo XII named him as secretary to the commission planning reconstruction of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. In 1800 while in Rome, he published Giornate pittoreschi degli edifici antichi di Roma e dei contorni.

Taken from the book "vues pittoresques de la journee de tivoli dessinees d'apres les monuments et d' apres nature en 1804 et 1805"

(Picturesque views of the day at Tivoli drawn from monuments and from nature in 1804 and 1805)

                                                     I HAVE LOCATED ANOTHER PRINT AT THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM IN SAN FRANSCISCO, USA..