Description
(My sound is rough, but it is still enticing and pleasing.) A beautiful bucolic scene featuring a bagpipe players and central figures on a donkey, surrounded by serene landscape elements such as trees, water, and rustic architecture.
Made by after an anonymous artist.
Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 52 x 43 cm (20.47 x 16.93 inch). Image size: 44 x 33 cm. (17.32 x 12.99 inch).
Condition: very good, given age. Original middle fold. Light creasing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BUCOOLIC-SCENE-DONKEY-WAGNER-VENICE-ENGRAVING-1740 | PCO-B2-43
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Published ca. 1740 by Appo. G. Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S.
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.





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