Bathsheba, from A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings
1764, published 1778
Medium
Stipple engraving in sanguine on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 46 × 30.5 cm (18 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 55.1 × 36.3 cm (21 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
13894
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Publisher John Boydell sought to elevate the stature of British connoisseurship of art and to rival France in the production and trade of prints. This print by William Wynne Ryland is a copy of a drawing by François Boucher, now in the British Museum, that was once owned by well-known collector William Esdaile. Ryland’s studies of crayon-manner engraving in Paris inspired him to develop a simplified version he called stipple engraving, in which a series of dots are punched into a metal plate wi...