Print Description
This print shows a view on an italian village scene. In the foreground two men are fighting, while a mother and child are trying to pull back the father. Near a staircase people are gathering, drinking, playing music and dancing.
Made by Joseph Wagner after Franz de Paula Ferg.
Medium: Etching / engraving on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 31.5 x 26.2 cm (12.4 x 10.31 inch). Image size: 30 x 25 cm. (11.81 x 9.84 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Smudges. Small margin. Creases in corners. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
VILLAGE SCENE-FIGHTING-MUSIC-DANCING-ITALY | RBOS-A10-35
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in Venice, by Wagner, ca 1750.
Biography engraver: Joseph Wagner (1706-1780) was a highly regarded eighteenth century engraver and draughtsman. He was born at Thalendorf, on Lake Constance, in 1706. He studied painting at Venice under Jacopo Amigoni. e worked in Rome, Bologna, Paris, and England before returning to Venice, where he founded a printmaking school. His students included Francesco Bartolozzi and Antonio Capellan.
Biography artist: Franz de Paula Ferg (1689-1740) was a Austrian painter from Vienna.
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