Il giocco del Ponte on the Ponte di Mezzo over the Arno at Pisa (recto); A garden and courtyard behind a church (verso)

Details

Giuseppe Zocchi (Florence 1711-1767)
Il giocco del Ponte on the Ponte di Mezzo over the Arno at Pisa (recto); A garden and courtyard behind a church (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watermark encircled device over CC
9¼ x 18 3/8 in. (235 x 461 mm.)

Provenance

Sir Horace Mann (1701-1786), by descent to
Mrs. Doris Ray Courtney Herbert, circa 1955.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1979, lot 228.

Literature

L. Tongiorgi Tomasi and A. Tosi, 'Le "Arti del disegno" a Pisa nel Settecento', Settecento Pisano, 1990, pp. 318 and 328, note 49.

Lot Essay

Drawn after 1763 while Zocchi was living in Pisa painting large landscape frescoes in the Palazzo dell'Archivescovado. The Giocco del Ponte was a mock battle between the two factions of the city which took place every three years on the Ponte di Mezzo in Pisa.
This and the following lot were part of an album (dismembered in 1979) commissioned from Zocchi by Sir Horace Mann when he was British Envoy in Florence after 1764.

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