Shakespeare's Tempest (Macklin's British Poets)
Medium
Stipple engraving, hand-colored; third state of three
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed within plate): 17 11/16 × 22 1/2 in. (45 × 57.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962
Accession Number
62.557.177
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg|Thomas Macklin|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...