Title
CASTELLO DELL OVO AT NAPLES = Vue du Chateau des Oeufes a Naples. / Fabris pinx.t ; P. Sandby fecit.
Creator
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Publish'd as the Act directs, by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Oxford Turnpike, Jan.y 1st. 1778, [January 1 1778]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint, etching and engraving, printed in sepia ; platemark 36.1 x 54, on sheet 36.7 x 55 cm.
Description
A woman sits at the door of her house while a cart pulled by oxes passes by at left and two drummers and a man rest by the sea in the foreground at right, with Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria at left and Castel dell'Ovo at right in the background.
Place
Naples (Italy)
Additional information
From a series of twenty-four sepia aquatints that appeared between 1777 and 1782 but that, as Abbey noted, might not have been originally intended as a set. The same author considers that, although the plates are linked together by their subject matter ('views in and near Naples'), by their association to Pietro Fabris as author of the original paintings and by the fact 'that they were all engraved either by Robertson or Sandby, while many of them were published by the two jointly', related plates could have been added to an initial collection of sixteen 'Views in Naples and other parts of Italy' by Sandby. The set in the King's Topographical Collection consists of twenty plates, of which eleven were published in 1777, four in 1778, and a further four in 1782, all after Fabris. The 1782 views are considerably larger.
Other persons
Fabris, Peter, active 18th century, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.TAB.60.