Title
Vue de l'Ecole de Virgile pre_s de la pointe de Posilipo = View of the Scola di Virgilio near the Point of Posilipo. / Fabris pinx.t ; Arch.d Robertson fecit.
Creator
Robertson, Archibald, approximately 1745-1813, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : [Archibald Robertson and Paul Sandby], [between 1777 and 1783]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint, etching and engraving, printed in sepia ; platemark 32 x 56.5cm, on sheet 32.5 x 56.8 cm.
Description
A group of monks enjoy a picnic by the sea in the foreground at right while a party of men and women on a canopied boat approach the shore from the left, with view of the ruins of the 'Scuola di Virgilio' and bridge in the background.
Place
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
Fabris, Peter, active 18th century, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps 7.TAB.60.