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"Genius Raising the Fine Arts"

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.)
"Genius Raising the Fine Arts"
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 27920

Creation/Production

WEST, Benjamin
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco
Date: 1789

Acquisition

Gift, 25/8/1958
Given by Mrs L. May Price

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)

Techniques

engraving and etching on paper

Material

Paper
ink

Location

In store

Categories

Gweithiau ar bapur | Works on paper Celf Gain | Fine Art 21_CADP_Dec_22 Alegori | Allegory Grŵp ffurf | Figure group CADP content
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