Cava Rii (Canal Dredgers)

published 1753

Gaetano Zompini

Artist, Italian, 1700 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving and etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 27 x 18.6 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.99.1.s

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: Sechemo l'aqua, e prima la se ferma; / Da i rii cavemo el fango col bail, / E in burchiele el portemo in tera ferma. (We stop up the water and empty it out; we dig out the mud from the small canals with shovels, and carry it in barrows to land); lower right in plate: 19

Wikidata ID

Q75119794

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