Giuseppe Zocchi (c. 1711-1767) Italian, Framed Engraving Print. Depicts a sweeping view of an Italian town with people around a river and bridge in the foreground. Signature printed below image bottom left. The words "G. Wagner seul Venezia" printed below the image bottom right. The title "La Real Villa del Poggio a Caiano" is printed in cursive below the image bottom middle. Framing label from Syracuse, New York on back of frame. 

Condition: Some toning. Commensurate with age. 

Overall Size: 16 x 24 x 1 in. 

Sight Size: 12 x 18 1/2 in. 

Giuseppe Zocchi (c. 1711-1767) was an Italian painter and printmaker active in Florence and best known for his vedute of the city. Born into a poor family, Zocchi began his training in his native Florence after his prodigal etching talent was noticed early on. The Marchese Andrea Gerini became his patron when he was in his teens, allowing him to study further in Venice, Milan, Bologna, and Rome. Gerini commissioned Zocchi to record all the famous Florentine landmarks, which he did in a series of drawings that are now held in New York’s Pierpont Morgan Library. A number of later engravers from Florence based their etchings on Zocchi’s drawings over the centuries. Zocchi also painted frescoes, such as two very large ones for the Villa Serristori outside Porta Niccolò and others depicting the Four Seasons in Palazzo Rinuccini. His surviving oil paintings are few in number, but several capture the jocular mood of the festivals held in Siena to celebrate the visit of Francis I Augustus. Tragically, while working on them he was afflicted with the plague that ran through Siena, and died upon returning to Florence.

Some toning. Commensurate with age.