"Genius Raising the Fine Arts"
WEST, Benjamin
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco
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Details
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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