Romeo and Juliet at the Masquerade (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5)
Medium
Stipple engraving, and etching, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
oval image: 8 1/4 x 6 9/16 in. (21 x 16.7 cm) sheet: 10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in. (25.6 x 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1196
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|William Hamilton|James Birchall|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...