Griselda

About this artwork

ets en stippelgravure in rood

Art Historical Context

**Griselda** *Francesco Bartolozzi, 1784* Step into the delicate world of 18th-century printmaking with Francesco Bartolozzi's *iselda* (1784), a striking etching executed in the stipple technique ("stippelgravure") and rendered in warm red tones. Measuring an unusually narrow 380 mm high by 29 mm wide, vertical composition evokes the elegance of a slender vignette, perfect for intimate collector's albums or illustrated books of the era. Bartolozzi, a Florentine engraver who flourished in London from the 1760s, was a virtuoso of reproductive prints, translating paintings into accessible etc...

About the Artist

Francesco Bartolozzi · 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...