Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 1765
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, no. 96, 3
Notes:
Etching by Arthur Pond (1701-1758), after Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674-1755), "Un Pizzicaruolo," from the series "Pond's Caricatures" (1741)
No. 77 in Henry M. Hake, "Pond’s and Knapton’s Imitations of Drawings," Print Collector’s Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4 (1922): 324-340
"Pizzicaruolo," a form of "pizzicaiuolo," a variant of "pizzicagnolo," i.e., someone who manages a "pizzicheria" (delicatessen, druggist or spice shop). However it also has a literary application, referring to literary texts, considered of little value, which might be used as wrapping papers for foodstuffs bought from a pizzicheria. In that sense the present portrait would be of a dealer or author of cheap literature Salvatore Battaglia, Grande dizionario della lingua italiana Torino, 1970-2002) 13: 613-617
