Fassi per battello (Wood Trader)

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: 26.8 x 18.3 cm (10 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1992.99.1.jj

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q75119874

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