Dido and Aeneas
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 22878
Creation/Production
Mezzotint engraver, one of the few to be a founder member of the RA (engravers were not able to become Academicians); he engraved the Guercino drawings at Windsor, and Holbein's portraits of the court of Henry VIII; also Cipriani and Kauffmann, popularising both these artists to the English eighteenth-century audience.
Role: Artist
Role: Engraver
Role: Engraver
Acquisition
Source unknown
Measurements
h(cm) plate size:45.6
h(cm)
w(cm) plate size:56.6
w(cm)
h(cm) secondary support:51.5
h(cm)
w(cm) secondary support:70.0
w(cm)
Techniques
Line engraving on paper
Engraving
Intaglio printing
Prints
Fine Art - works on paper
Material
Ink
Paper
Location
In store
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