Title
The Town of Puzzuoli, with a View of the Ruins of Calligula's Bridge & the Island of Nisita = La Ville de Puzzuoli avec une vue des ruines du Pont de Caligula et de l'Isle de Nisita. / Fabris Pinx.t. ; P. Sandby Fecit.
Creator
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Publish'd April 1777. by P. Sandby & A. Robertson, as the Act directs, [April 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
Fisherman sitting by the sea and boats approaching the shore in the foreground, with view of the town of Pozzuoli at left and remains of Roman bridge and Island of Nisida at right in the background.
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
Robertson, Archibald, active 1765-1796, publisher.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.TAB.60.