Marco RICCI (Belluno 1676 - Venice 1729) "Landscape with peasants and horse in tow" Original etching from two plates, one for the figured part and one for the dedicatory, monogrammed in MR f plate on the stone on the bottom left and signed "Mar. Ricci In. Et fec. " bottom right at the end of the dedication after the name of the publisher Carlo Orsolini. It is the fourth subject (of twenty) in the series entitled "Varia Marci Ricci Pictoris praestantissimi experimenta ab ipsomet auctore inventa, outlined atque incisa and to me Carlo Orsolini Venetian engraver in unum collecta - Nec non varis insignibus atq: amplissimis Viris dicata ac in lucem edita Anno MDCCXXX Venetiis ”printed and published by Orsolini in Venice in 1730 after Ricci's death. Beautiful specimen in the second state of two with the number 4 in the upper left corner, printed on a portion of typical eighteenth-century laid paper bearing the "Tre Lune" watermark, attributable to Venetian paper production of the eighteenth century, with large margins beyond the imprint of the slab, a small spot on the high edge but overall in excellent general condition. Bibliography: Bartsch “Le Peintre-Graveur” Vienna 1821 vol.XXI pag.315 n ° 4. Pallucchini "The Venetian engravers of the eighteenth century" Venice, Cini, 2012 page 63 n ° 220. Pittaluga "Venetian etchers of the eighteenth century" Florence 1952 pag.17 and following. Succi “From Carlevarijs to Tiepolo. Venetian and Friulian engravers of the eighteenth century "Gorizia 1983 pag. 333 n ° 416. Measurements in mm: the subject 292 x 437, the dedicatory 30 x 350.