Salvator Rosa's sketches
A set of etched figure studies by the Neapolitan painter Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), published around 1700 with no named publisher, and held by the Getty Research Institute as a collection of artists' figure sketches. The plates show single standing or seated men, mostly soldiers and classical types, drawn with loose parallel hatching on plain paper margins. A designer could take from them a economical method of suggesting costume, armour and gesture with line alone, useful for quick character poses and historical figure work.
