Italian and Spanish Prints
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 518 Italian and Spanish prints which date from between AD 1460 and 1960. This collection contains intaglio etchings and engravings on paper. It includes around 400 Italian prints, the vast majority of which are etchings by or after Salvator Rosa, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Luigi Rossini. The Neapolitan painter-etcher Salvator Rosa produced well over 100 etchings during his life, the vast majority of which are represented in this collection. Both Piranesi and Rossini recorded images of the ruins of ancient Rome in sets of masterful etchings, primarily made for wealthy tourists. This collection contains partial sets of Piranesi’s 'Vedute di Roma' and Rossini's 'Vedute di Antichita Romane'. There is also a complete set of 15 etchings by Giovanni Battista de' Cavalieri, after paintings in Rome by Niccolò Circignani, relating to the life and martyrdom of Saint Apollinare. In addition there are smaller groups or individual engravings by or after Simone Cantarini, GB Castiglione, Carlo Cesio, Guido Reni, Marco Ricci, Antonio Tempesta, and Pietro Testa. There are a further 118 Spanish prints, almost all of which are by or after Francisco Goya. Of particular significance is a rare early set of the 18 etchings forming his final, haunting 'Los Disparates' series, between 1820 and 1824.
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