![[River scene with ruined castle.]](jpegs/52016.jpg)
[River scene with ruined castle.]
Clerisau del. Berardi Scul. appo Wagner Venezia C.P.E.S.
[n.d., c. 1760.]
Rare etching. 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½), with large margins. Slight creasing.
After Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), draughtsman and architect. He went to Rome in 1749 and was working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam’s 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. The engraver is Fabio Berardi (1728-88).
[Ref: 52016] £190.00
[n.d., c. 1760.]
Rare etching. 260 x 320mm (10¼ x 12½), with large margins. Slight creasing.
After Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820), draughtsman and architect. He went to Rome in 1749 and was working for Robert Adam as a draughtsman during the architect's tour of Italy (1755-63). Many of the illustrations in Adam’s 'Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro' (1764) were drawn by Clérisseau, without attribution. The engraver is Fabio Berardi (1728-88).
[Ref: 52016] £190.00