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  • Pinelli etching Virgil and Dante, the plate being examined by monsters who are watched on the right by Virgil and Dante. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The Caelian hill, Rome, seen from the Palatine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • A young artist in his studio contemplating a skull. Etching, 1815.
  • The Palatine hill, Rome, seen from the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Thieves being tortured by snakes in the 8th circle of Hell, watched by Dante and Virgil. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A writer (Pinelli?) resting, holding a book while sitting on a tombstone, his two dogs at his feet; a pyramid in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A veiled woman, kneeling, begs for alms before her swaddled baby. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • Dante and Virgil watching Bertrand de Born hold his head away from his body to illustrate the spreading of disunity. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A countrywoman is telling the fortune of a young artist at the entrance to a chapel; two other artists walk past on the right; five paintings on the wall. Drawing by B. Pinelli, 1811.
  • Bandits armed with guns drink with women outside an Italian country inn; in the foreground are a couple on horseback. Coloured etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.
  • Virgil and Dante sitting on the back of Geryon to be transported from the 8th to the 7th circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A friar giving food to lame people and to a mother and her two children. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • The giant Antaeus carries Virgil and Dante to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The Viminal hill, Rome, seen from the slopes of the Quirinal. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • A woman in Rome is trying to separate two women fighting, one is holding a stick, the other is holding a bucket; a child crying in the background. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • The Colosseum, Rome: a friar is preaching to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • Rome: a crowd of revellers in the Corso celebrate the end of carnival by snuffing out candles. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1830.
  • An elderly seated man proffering money to a young woman, overlooked by a young man climbing in through the window. Drawing by B. Pinelli.
  • A crowd of people have gathered in the street to watch a Punch and Judy show, a mother has lifted her child up to see and another child pulls back the cloths to peep into the stand. Etching by B. Pinelli.
  • Dante and Virgil watching heretics in hell ripping their bodies apart as punishment for schism. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • Young women with their children kissing a reliquary presented to them by a hermit. Etching by Pinell, 1809.
  • The Esquiline hill, Rome, seen from the Colosseum. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • The Capitoline hill, Rome, seen from the foot of the Aventine. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1825.
  • A family picking fleas off each other's heads; to the left a baby is harnessed by a rope to the wall, to the right a boy picks fleas off a dog. Etching by B. Pinelli.
  • A veiled woman, kneeling, begs a young man for alms; her three sick children at her feet. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1809.
  • A woman carrying a child in Lazio is buying salad greens from a vendor carrying produce in large baskets. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
  • An itinerant salesman selling amulets against the bites of snakes and other animals to a crowd of people who purchase them eagerly. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1815.
  • Drinkers and mandolin players in a Roman inn, with landscape seen through an open archway. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1820.