Italy in Britain
- Object:
Print
- Place of origin:
Great Britain, UK (made)
- Date:
1999 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Pittaway, Neil (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Etching on paper
- Credit Line:
Given by the artist
- Museum number:
E.864-2003
- Gallery location:
In store
Neil Pittaway is a young English artist whose work reflects a kind of mania to do with gothic revival architecture, urban-ness, satire, illustration and narrative. Relating to existing works in the museum collection, his prints incorporate elements of famous 19th-century satirists such as Gillray and Cruikshank, woven into a complex and agoraphobic maze of buildings which echo the monumental perspectives of the18th-century architectural draughtsman, Piranesi and the mazes and impossible spaces of the 20th-century Duch artist M.C. Escher, evoking many of the values and visual qualities which make up the museum's, and indeed, London's, past.
