Le ventiqvattr' hore dell' hvmana felicità : invenzione disegno ed intaglio
A 1675 Bologna series of etched character studies by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, published as a set of twenty-four hours of human happiness, with each plate showing a single figure in a stock role. Designers can take from it the economical crosshatched line and the way each figure is defined by costume, prop and posture alone: a ragged beggar with a hat and staff, a standing gentleman with a cloak, a harlequin in diamond-patterned dress, and a scholar beside a globe and books.
