Benedizione de' cavalli, nel giorno di San Antonio in Roma, circa 1820. [ca. 1820] Church of S. Antonio all'Esquilino The piazza is crowded with figures and horses, festooned with flowers, ribbons and feathers and gathered before the church of S. Antonio all'Esquilino for the blessing of the horses. Title and publisher from inscription in pencil. Attributed to Salvatore Busuttil in pencil inscription. Imprint: Rome, Giacomo Antonelli al corso alle convertite, #179 B. Illegible inscription in the lower right hand corner of the image: J. Feri [?] f. Rome. With Pecci-Blunt's collector's mark, in
Benedizione de' cavalli, nel giorno di San Antonio in Roma, circa 1820. [ca. 1820] Church of S. Antonio all'Esquilino The piazza is crowded with figures and horses, festooned with flowers, ribbons and feathers and gathered before the church of S. Antonio all'Esquilino for the blessing of the horses. Title and publisher from inscription in pencil. Attributed to Salvatore Busuttil in pencil inscription. Imprint: Rome, Giacomo Antonelli al corso alle convertite, #179 B. Illegible inscription in the lower right hand corner of the image: J. Feri [?] f. Rome. With Pecci-Blunt's collector's mark, in black ink, in the lower right hand corner and one on the verso in the center. Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt collected prints, published works, drawings and paintings thematically focused upon the city of Rome. Her collection included views, plans, maps of Rome and depictions of the inhabitants of the city in popular costume. As intense urban development under Mussolini transformed Rome in the 1930's, interest in the city's past grew among certain circles in Rome. Pecci-Blunt's collection came to be known as "Roma Sparita" because of its nostalgic focus on the Rome of a bygone era. Pecci-Blunt marked many of the prints in her collection with her collector's marks. Small, circular marks found on the recto of the prints, typically in the lower right corner, display Pecci-Blunt's family coat of arms, a comet, encircled with the text: "Coll. A. L. Pecci Blunt." Circular marks on the verso of the prints, typically in the lower center, denote Pecci-Blunt's name for her collection, "Roma Sparita." The stamps contain the text; "Roma Sparita, ," (with space for adding an inventory number), encircled with additional text "Collezione Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt."
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