Saint Mark's Square, Venice: two men on horseback are jousting at a tournament before a crowd celebrating the marriage of Jacopo Foscari. Steel engraving by E. Goodall, 1830, after T. Stothard..

  • Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834
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1830
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Saint Mark's Square, Venice: two men on horseback are jousting at a tournament before a crowd celebrating the marriage of Jacopo Foscari. Steel engraving by E. Goodall, 1830, after T. Stothard.. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2023 : Two men on horseback are jousting at a tournament before a crowd in Saint Mark's Square, Venice. Etching.

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The joust in Venice is a memory of Jacopo Foscari after he has been exiled from Venice to Crete: "Starting as from some wild and uncouth dream / To answer to the watch. Alas, how changed / From him the mirror of the youth of Venice / Whom in the slightest thing, or whim or chance / Did he but wear his doublet so and so / All followed; at whose nuptials, when he won / That maid at once the noblest, fairest, best, / A daughter of the House that now among / Its ancestors in monumental brass / Numbers eight Doges— to convey her home / The Bucentaur went forth; and thrice the sun / Shone on the chivalry, that, front to front / And blaze on blaze reflecting, met and ranged / To tourney in St. Mark's" (Rogers, op. cit., p. 78)

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1830

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1 print : etching ; image 13 x 14 cm

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Wellcome Collection 34359i

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