Title
View of the Ruins of an Ancient Edifice on the High Ground of Baia = Vue des Ruines d'un ancien Edifice dans la Colline de Baia.
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
Groups of figures on a road under a coffered arch in ruins, with landscape in the background.
Place
Baia (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.