- Title
- View of Mare Chiano = Vue de Mare Chiano.
- Creator
- Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809, printmaker, publisher.
- Publication details
- [London] : Publish'd as the Act directs, by P. Sandby & A. Robertson. June 1777, [June 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
- Children play on Marechiaro beach while a fisherman and his family stand by a fishing boat in the foreground, with group of figures singing and playing the guitar sitting on a wall at left and view of Naples with Mount Vesuvius in the background at right.
- Place
- Posillipo Hill (Italy) -- Marechiaro (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
- Robertson, Archibald, active 1765-1796, publisher.
- Shelfmark
- Maps 7.TAB.60.