Plate 13: a townscape with a fountain, fallen column and statue at right and a Gothic church beside an aqueduct in the background
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 9 7/8 × 14 1/4 in. (25.1 × 36.2 cm) Sheet: 11 15/16 × 16 9/16 in. (30.4 × 42.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.539
Tags
RuinsLandscapes
About the Artist
Davide Antonio Fossati|Marco Ricci · 1708–1789
Davide Antonio Fossati (1708-1795) was a Swiss-Italian painter and etcher who specialized in fresco painting, particularly architectural and decorative works. Born at Morcote, Ticino, Switzerland in 1708, Fossati moved to Venice in 1720 at the young age of twelve, where he would spend most of his professional life working on decorative commissions for noble palaces and important churches across th...