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Venus and Adonis
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Venus and Adonis

Medium

Etching and stipple engraving; fourth state of nine

Dimensions

Plate: 9 15/16 × 7 1/2 in. (25.3 × 19 cm) Sheet: 12 9/16 × 9 1/8 in. (31.9 × 23.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Francesco Bartolozzi

1727–1815

Not the author of: Ricerche istorico-critiche circa alle scoperte d'Amerigo Vespucci.

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