Title
PART OF NAPLES, WITH THE RUIND TOWER OF ST. VINCENT = Vue de Naples avec les debris de la Tour de St. Vincent. / 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 37 x 54, on sheet 37.6 x 55.1 cm.
Description
Fishermen at work and women carrying baskets full of fish in the foreground, with ruined tower in the Molo de San Vincenzo beyond, and view of Castel dell'Ovo at left and Castel Sant'Elmo 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.