Description Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 45.8 x 36.7 cm (18.03 x 14.45 inch). Image size: 45.8 x 36.7 cm. (18.03 x 14.45 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Original middle fold as published. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. BATTLE OF CADORE, FRANCESCO BASSANO, TIEPOLO, ANDREA ZUCCHI, VENETIAN REPUBLIC, HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, 1508, ENGRAVING, IL GRAN TEATRO DI VENEZIA, VENICE HISTORY | PCO-B8-41 BACKGROUND INFORMATION From: ‘Il Gran Teatro di Venezia’, published by Domenico Lovisa, Venice, c. 1720. Plate 13. Reference: British Museum 1855,0609.1163; Enrica Pan, Jacopo Bassano e l’incisione (1992), cat. 106. Biography engraver: Andrea Zucchi (1679-1740) was a Venetian engraver known for reproductions of paintings in Venetian palaces. Contributed many plates to ‘Il Gran Teatro di Venezia’. Biography artist: Francesco Bassano (1549-1592), son of Jacopo Bassano, was an Italian painter of the Venetian school, known for large narrative compositions. This work was originally in the Palazzo Ducale. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was a painter and etcher from Venice.
