Title
View of a Grotto upon the Amalphi Coast in the Gulph of Salerno = Vue d'une Grotte Sur la Co_te de Amalfi dans le Gulphe de Salernes. / Fabris pinx.t ; Arch.d Robertson fecit.
Creator
Robertson, Archibald, approximately 1745-1813, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Publish'd Jan.y 15th. 1782, by A. Robertson, Charles Street, St James's Square, [January 15 1782]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint, etching and engraving, printed in sepia ; sheet 32.5 x 57 cm (trimmed below platemark).
Description
A group of fishermen and their families rest in a cave by the sea in the foreground, with towers and coastline seen through the entrance in the background.
Place
Amalfi Coast (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.