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Sponze, Naranze , ec. — Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers — Zompini — Arti #45

Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 45 - Sponze, Naranze , ec. - Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers

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 sellers
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers
Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 45 - Sponze, Naranze , ec. - Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers - coloured
Gaetano 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) - study
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers (45) – study
Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 45 - Sponze, Naranze , ec. - Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers - coloured
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers – coloured
Gaetano Zompini - Arti che vanno per via - plate 45 - Sponze, Naranze , ec. - Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers
Gaetano Zompini – Arti che vanno per via – plate 45 – Sponze, Naranze , ec. – Sponges, brooms and citrus fruit sellers

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Bibliography

Zompini, Gaetano. Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia inventate ed incise da Gaetano Zompini, Aggiuntavi una memoria di detto autore. Venezia, 1785.

More translations …

René Seindal

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