Bidspirit auction | Pivati Gianfrancesco - A Slave

Pivati Gianfrancesco - A Slave Flayed, Peruvians' Desolation during a Sun Eclipse - Etching on paper (1746/51) - A Slave flayed by the Enemies, Peruvians desolation during an Eclipse of the Sun is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing two violent scenes (a slave flayed by enemies, and the desolation of Peruvian people during an Eclypse of the Sun), is from the series New Scientific and Curious Dictionary concerning the Sacred and the Profane, Tome VIII, Plate LXXIX, published by Benedetto Milocco in Venice in 1746-1751, concerning the Uses and Costumes, Religious Rites of American people.