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Marco Ricci (Belluno 1676-Venice 1730)

Landscape with a stream and cattle herd c. 1723 - c. 1730

Etching | 29.2 x 43.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 830326

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  • An etching of a landscape scene, with a river and cottage. Figures on the riverbank and a herd of cows in the water. Signed with the artist's initials in the plate and numbered 2 in the upper left corner. On a separate plate below, a dedication to Gherardo Sagredo by the print publisher Count Orsolini.

    Marco Ricci began etching in about 1723, when he wrote to the Florentine scholar Francesco Gabburri that he had just begun to make an intaglio plate (4 June 1723). His etchings are of landscape subjects, showing river scenes, rocky landscapes, travellers and bandits. After Ricci's death in 1730, the print publisher Carlo Orsolini published 21 of his etchings as the Varia Marci Ricci Pictoris Prestantissimi Experimenta, with a decorative frontispiece by Antonio Visentini and a portrait print of the artist by Giovanni Antonio Faldoni after Rosalba Carriera. The present print is loose; a vellum-bound volume of the Varia Experimenta from the collection of Joseph Smith is RCIN 809060.

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    Etching

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    29.2 x 43.2 cm (sheet of paper)

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