La Cecina di S. E. il Sig.r Sen.re March.e Carlo Ginori

Etching and engraving by Filippo Morghen, after Giuseppe Zocchi.

Taken from Vedute delle ville, e d'altri luoghi della Toscana, printed in Florence by Giuseppe Bouchard, 1757.

Zocchi's refined drawing, after which the prints were made, shows the hazy atmosphere of villa and garden in the warm light of a Tuscan afternoon. A popular collector's item throughout the eighteenth century, Zocchi's beautiful book encouraged many Englishman and other Northern Europeans to visit Italy and not only study but experience firsthand villa life and the art and architecture.

The work contains 50 plates engraved with etching and engraving by Benedetti, Morghen, Monaco, Piranesi, and others from original drawings by Zocchi. A set of engravings of the most suggestive places in Tuscany.

Zocchi (1711-1767) studied in Rome, Bologna and Lombardy. In Florence he painted some rooms of the Rinuccini palace; but he is certainly better known as an illustrator of Florence and other places in Tuscany; there are in fact numerous engravings from his drawings representing views of squares, churches, palaces of Florence and surroundings, villas and other Tuscan villages.

Villa Ginori, also known as Palazzo Ginori, is a building complex located in the town of Cecina, at the mouth of the river of the same name, near the town of Marina di Cecina. It was built around 1740, on a design by the architect Giovanni del Fantasia, at the behest of Carlo Ginori, who had acquired the estate of Cecina from the Grand Ducal government.