'Alla fente costei bagna le piante....' (after Francesco Zuccarelli)
Joseph Wagner (1706 - Venice 1780)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
paper
Measurements
620 x 500 mm
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286618.1
Summary
Etching, 'Alla fente costei bagna le piante....' (after Francesco Zuccarelli) by Joseph Wagner (1706 - Venice 1780). With a four line verse, 'Alla fente costei bagna le piante/E da begli occhi par che fiamma spiri/Lei guarda e dice il Pastorello amante/Que piedi ascingarei co mei sospiri'. A girl sits washing her feet in a pond in the foreground whilst a shepherd boy stands behind with his sheep around him, watching her. Numbered 7-2/No.1.
Marks and inscriptions
Numbered 7-2/No.1
Makers and roles
Joseph Wagner (1706 - Venice 1780), engraver (printmaker) after Francesco Zuccarelli, RA (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), artist