Title
The Island of Nisita Town of Puzzuoli with a distant View of Baia = L'Isle de Nisita la Ville de Puzzuoli avec une vue de Baia dans l'eloignement. / Fabris pinx.t ; Arch.d Robertson fecit.
Creator
Robertson, Archibald, active 1765-1796, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Publish'd by P. Sandby & A. Robertson as the Act directs. June 1st. 1777, [June 1 1777]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint, etching and engraving, printed in sepia ; platemark 31.5 x 56.2 , on sheet 32.5 x 57 cm.
Description
A shepherd and a group of hunters rest by the sea in the foreground, with the Island of Nisida in the background at left and beach, view of Pozzuoli and Baia at right.
Place
Pozzuoli (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
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.TAB.60.