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Prints / PR2924

Florence, No. 18 Borgo S Jacopo

Artist/Maker: Richards, Frederick Charles [1878-1932]



1925
Etching in black on thin white wove paper

177 x 168 mm.
Purchase: Peter Jones, Bury St Edmunds 2005
Funding support: MLA / V & A

Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1925. The subject is a reverse, though different, image of PR2931. This print is a detail of the central house in PR2931 but interestingly Richards has kept the boat with off loading figures in the same position. Borgo S Jacopo is a street located between the bridges Ponte Vecchio and Ponte a Santa Trinita. The street was largely destroyed by German mines in 1944 where after it was rebuilt in a similar style



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