Work

Pellegrino Mazzotti made busts, death masks, a medallion and twelve plaster castings taken from carvings. He only worked in plaster. He advertised his work with a trade card, which is part of the Heal Collection in the British Museum.¹

P. Mazzotti,

Artist.

Busts taken from the living and dead

and executed at the shortest notice.

Figures,&c. repaired, cleaned & bronzed,

in the neatest manner.

Alabaster, China and Marble,

Ornaments,

Neatly Repaired and Cleaned.

Notes:

¹ Trade cards. P. Mazzotti (c.1794-1879). (n.d.) Norwich. Ransome. Heal Collection. 106.18. British Museum, London. http://bit.ly/13p5SEP : accessed 12 January 2013.

The trade card was brought to my attention by Jacob Simon, formerly Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery and currently a Research Fellow. It is mentioned in Roscoe, I. (2009) A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. p. 824.