Damon and Musidora
February 2, 1782
Medium
Stipple engraving, printed in color
Dimensions
Plate: 9 7/16 × 7 5/16 in. (24 × 18.6 cm) Sheet: 10 7/16 × 7 7/8 in. (26.5 × 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.75
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Angelica Kauffmann|James Birchall|G. Durand · 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...