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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jsnggltt, post: 404157, member: 8637&quot;]I would love to understand this one better. What I appear to have here is a beautiful hand colored lithograph depicting &quot;The Village Procession&quot; by Aurelio Tiratelli (1842-1900)</p><p><br /></p><p>But upon closer inspection you will see where the signature should read:</p><p><br /></p><p>Tiratelli A</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Roma</p><p><br /></p><p>it actually reads:</p><p><br /></p><p>Giratelli C</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Roma</p><p><br /></p><p>and then as you familiarize yourself with the images you will notice the that the engraver must have felt that Tiratelli created too much open space on the right half of his original and so said engraver took it upon himself to fix that issue by adding a barking dog, a tree, what appears to be a concrete post, some grass and finally some flowers.</p><p><br /></p><p>So...is this a case of a 19 century typo on an early sketch where Aurelio felt the fore ground needed more business?</p><p><br /></p><p>Not so fast. According to an article in the January 1st, 1876 edition of <u>The Architect a journal of Art, Engineering, and Building</u> :</p><p><br /></p><p>“Horses Thrashing Corn in the Campagna” by Giratelli was also admired.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; The only problem with that is there is no Italian artist of note named Giratelli and “Horses Thrashing Corn in the Campagna” is a mix-mash of two of George Hemming&#039;s works: &quot;Ploughing in the Campagna&quot; (1857) and &quot;Threshing Corn&quot; (185?)</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I have found one more Giratelli painting at:</p><p><a href="http://www.reurnthai.com/index.php?topic=5274.15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.reurnthai.com/index.php?topic=5274.15" rel="nofollow">http://www.reurnthai.com/index.php?topic=5274.15</a></p><p>but my Thai is not adequate to ask questions about the piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I would love any help/insight/feedback you might be able to give me about the next step in my investigation (as I am currently stumped)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cheers!</p><p><br /></p><p>Jason G[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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