ROVERETO - La colossal Republica Francese quasi vetro sottile trasparente. - Qui giace l'ora quondam… Repubblica Cisalpina .Rovereto, Luglio 1799

Two watercolor etchings; Measures of sheet: mm. 332x489, 384x543; Measures of engraving: mm. 251x401, 251x401. On the bottom right: In Roveredo, Luglio 1799.

Rare anti-revolutionary allegorical caricatures printed in Rovereto in July 1799. In the first engraving the Sun reflects on the banners of European nobility and dissolves the statues of the Sister Republics, based on the model of Revolutionary France. The second is a funeral indictment for the death of the Cisalpine Republic, whose name stands as a tomb inscription. The work conveys in an allegorical and sarcastic way the anti-revolutionary climate that was to be breathed in that moment in the Venetian Republic, built on the ashes of the Serenissima. The engraving is printed a month before the fall of the Cisalpine Republic, dissolved in August 1799.