ARTIST: Volpato Giovanni

YEAR: about 1766

SIZE: 297x385mm

TECHNIQUE: Etching b/w

Engraving from a series of 12 street trades “Arti per via” (Street Arts), all engraved by Volpato after Francesco Maggiotto for Cavalli. A street scene with a male entertainer holding the rope of a muzzled and chained bear and dancing to the music of a boy playing the shawm whilst leaning against a wall to the left; in the right foreground a monkey wearing a coat is seated on a second muzzeld and chained bear.