Idyll: Frontispiece to "The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill"
Francesco Bartolozzi|Biagio Rebecca|John Bell
March 13, 1782
Medium
Engraving; second state of four
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 3/8 × 3 7/16 in. (13.7 × 8.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008
Accession Number
2018.839.143
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Biagio Rebecca|John Bell · 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...