Salvator Rosa Has ludentis otii Carolo Rubeo Singularis Amicitiæ pignus D. D. D.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2455
Variant Title
Has ludentis otii
Salvator Rosa Banditti
Banditti
Figurine
Imprint
Norimbergæ: apud Ioan. Iacobum de Sandrart, [after 1675?]
Physical Description
61 pl. (incl. t.-pl.); 244 mm.
General Note
Plate 61 is pasted onto the verso of plate 60.
Responsibility Note
Plate 3 is signed 'Salvador Rosa invenit'; plate 42 'S. Rosa invenit'; plate 46 'S. Rosa inc.'; the others, 'SR' (or variants); plates 1, 4, 8, 31 and 60 are unsigned. Plate 61 is signed 'EQ' and 'ABacx excudit'.
References
M. Vallora, O. Theodoli and A. Griffiths, Salvator Rosa, 1615-1673: acqueforti (1992); R.W. Wallace, The etchings of Salvator Rosa (1979), p.310 (on Sandrart's copy), p.12-36, 135-229 (on Rosa's original series). R.W. Wallace, 'Salvator Rosa's Figurine in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston', in Print Quarterly, 6:1 (1989), p.45-9.
J. Sunderland, 'The legend and influence of Salvator Rosa in England in the eighteenth century', in Burlington magazine, 115 (1973), p.785-9; J. Sunderland, 'John Hamilton Mortimer and Salvator Rosa', in Burlington magazine, 112 (1970), p.520-31; E.W. Manwaring, Italian landscape in eighteenth-century England: a study chiefly of the influence of Claude Lorrain and Salvator Rosa on English taste (1925).
Summary Note
No publication-date is carried by the title-plate or other plate. The compilation is a reverse-copy by J.J. von Sandrart of etchings from Salvator Rosa's Figurine (probably originally published in 1656 or 1657) together with copies of six of his larger plates. R.W. Wallace mentions an earlier issue in which Sandrart's imprint read, 'Norimbergae aput Joannem Jacobum de Sandrart Pictorem et Calcographum'. In the eighteenth century the series were often referred to as Banditti, but Rosa himself called them simply Figurine.
The plates show men, women, soldiers, singly or in groups, reclining, seated, kneeling, standing or walking, and wearing the most various clothing. Their romantic and slightly exotic appearance led to their being called 'banditti', and they were much in vogue in eighteenth-century Britain, where they influenced several engravers such as John Hamilton Mortimer, A.R.A.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
Imperfect; lacking plate 16.
Binding Note
20th-century half calf; marbled-paper boards; brown morocco spine-label, lettered, 'Salvator Rosa Banditti'.