Pomona
Medium
Etching and stipple engraving, hand colored; third state
Dimensions
plate: 10 x 9 in. (25.4 x 22.9 cm) 11 3/16 x 10 1/8 in. (28.4 x 25.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Leonard E. Opdycke, 1928
Accession Number
28.64.1
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Giovanni Battista Cipriani|Jane White · 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...