Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Dido and Aeneas

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.)

Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 22878

Creation/Production

JONES, Thomas (after)
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco
WOOLLETT, William
Date:

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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