etching published as part of the capricci series in 1785
the artist had already died back in 1770
his son, giovanni domenico tiepolo, had possesion of his works
https://www.rct.uk/collection/807843/vari-capricci
but i didn't know that the V&A have an album of his rough sketches ...
so we can see how this great composition was condensed out of the internal "cloud" of his imagination
