'Bello e veder nel liquido element....' (after Francesco Zuccarelli)
Joseph Wagner (1706 - Venice 1780)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
660 x 500 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286617
Summary
Etching, 'Bello e veder nel liquido element....' (after Francesco Zuccarelli) by Joseph Wagner (1706 - Venice 1780). ex collectione J. Smith. Four lines of verse inscribed below, 'Bello e veder nel liquido elemento/Quando pui bolle il Sol le Villanelle/Tuffar le membra leggiadrette e belle/Dal piede eburneo al delicato mento'. Four girls bathe in a pond in the foreground and behind some shepherds pass with cattle and sheep. Numbered 7-7/CC No.5
Marks and inscriptions
Numbered 7-7/CC No.5
Makers and roles
Joseph Wagner (1706 - Venice 1780), engraver (printmaker) after Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), artist