Veduta della Villa d'Este sul Lago di Como

Original etching enhanced and signed Nap. Zucoli inc. (incised) In the lower left corner and Campi Acquer. (Acquarello) in the lower right corner.
View of the Villa d'Este bordering Lake Como. Directed by Filippo Campi and Napoleone Zucoli, engravers.
This etching is part of a set of lacustrine landscapes and views of Italian monuments (Villa d'Este, Duomo of Milan ...) gathered in an amicorum album among engravings, lithographs, drawings, and washings .
Executed in the first quarter of the 19th century, these etchings sum up the stages of the "Grand Tour" of Italy, the obligatory journey of the post-Napoleonic nobility who came to Italy to make an artistic and bucolic pilgrimage to the great achievements of the Renaissance Tuscany and the charming Lombard and Piedmontese mountain lakes. The European aristocracy was therefore fond of these etchings of good graphic quality enhanced by brilliant colors, which brought together the high places of architecture and the Italian countryside.