Jane Shore: "Give gentle mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 3, scene 1)
Medium
Stipple engraving and etching, printed in brown ink; third state of four
Dimensions
sheet: 7 3/8 x 4 3/16 in. (18.7 x 10.6 cm) (clipped impression)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.756–2013
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Edward Harding|Jane Shore|Sylvester Harding|William Shakespeare · 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...