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"Genius Raising the Fine Arts"

WEST, Benjamin
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco
"Genius Raising the Fine Arts"
Image: By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 27920

Creation/Production

WEST, Benjamin
1738-1820
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco
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
Period: 1789

Measurements

h(cm) image size:49.1
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:62.6
w(cm)
h(cm) primary support:57.1
h(cm)
w(cm) primary support:70
w(cm)

Material

Paper
Ink

Location

In store
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  • Allegory
  • Figure Group
  • Fine Art
  • Works On Paper

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