Piazza San Marco, ca. 1741

  • Michele Giovanni Marieschi, Italian, 1696-1743

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Image: 11 3/8 × 17 3/8 inches (28.9 × 44.1 cm) Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 11 3/4 × 17 5/8 inches (29.8 × 44.8 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S736

Signed, in plate, lower right: Michl. Marieschi delt. et incit.

Watermark, center right edge of image

Inscribed, in plate, below image: Marci aliler prospectum cum eiusdem Basilica in extrema parte, nec non cum œdibus D: Marci Procuratorum ad dexteram uulgo nouis et alteris, uulfo ueteribus ad lœum.

September 1886, (Wunderlich & Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mauroner, Fabio. "Michiel Marieschi." Print Collector's Quarterly 27 (1940): pp. 178-215, no. 9.

Michele Giovanni Marieschi, Piazza San Marco, ca. 1741, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S736.