Fassi per battello (Wood Trader), published 1753

Inscription

across bottom in plate: Sti fassi forti, e dolci mi all'ingrosso / Compro, che vien per mar, e per el Pò / E per i rii li vendo a tanti al grosso. (These bundles of hard and soft wood I buy in gross from overseas and from the Po, and sell them on the rio for so much a coin); lower right in plate: 36

Provenance

(Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London, England); purchase 1992, by NGA

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