Maternal Love
Medium
Etching and stipple engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (14.8 × 17.9 cm) (oval)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Fräulein Sofie Krick, 1933
Accession Number
33.3.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Giovanni Battista Cipriani|William Byrne · 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...