Sponze, Naranze , ec. — Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers — Zompini — Arti #45
Sponze, Naranze , ec. — plate 45
The Arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (1753, 1770, 1785, etc.), by Gaetano Zompini (1700–1778), contains sixty engravings of common, mostly poor people, peddling their trades on the streets of Venice in the mid-1700s.
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellersGaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers – coloured
Text
Sponze, naranze, cedri, e da Ferara
Le scoe mi vendo, e fenochi, e limoni;
Robe che a dirla tute à la so tara.
Translation
Sponges, oranges, citrons, and from Ferrara I sell brooms, and fennel, and lemons; Stuff, to say it, all by its weight.
Notes
A rather odd mixture of products, but it might depend more on what supplies he had access to, than on any kind of modern logic or reasoning.
His bag is a simple round mat of wicker, bent together. There’s an identical bag on plate 50.
All images
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers (45) – studyGaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers – colouredGaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers
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