Bacchanal with Five Putti, Rondel in a Rectangular Frame (in "Designs for Various Ornaments," pl. 40)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 17 7/8 x 11 in. (45.4 x 27.9 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.50.2(40)
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Giovanni Battista Cipriani|Michelangelo Pergolesi|Michelangelo Pergolesi · 1727–1815
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815) was an Italian engraver whose most productive period was spent in London, where he became the leading exponent of stipple engraving and a founding member of the Royal Academy. Born in Florence and trained first as a painter before turning to engraving in Venice, he established his reputation in Rome before being recruited by the English Royal Librarian Richard Dalt...