View of the Island of San Giacomo in Paludo, Francesco Tironi, late 18th century


View of the Island of San Giacomo in Paludo, late 18th century, Pen and brown ink, gray wash, 10 13/16 x 16 5/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Francesco Tironi (Venice ca. 1745–1797), Although Francesco Tironi's artistic activity remains somewhat uncertain, we do know that he provided the drawings for Antonio Sandi’s twenty-four engravings of islands in the Venetian Lagoon. The engravings were published in 1779, and many of the drawings are extant today


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