Apollo and Mercury as Infants
Medium
Etching and stipple engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 4 1/4 × 6 in. (10.8 × 15.2 cm) Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 13/16 in. (12.5 × 17.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.2697
Tags
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Edward Francis Burney · 1727–1815
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727–1815) was an Italian engraver whose most productive period was spent in London, where he became the leading exponent of stipple engraving and a founding member of the Royal Academy. Born in Florence and trained first as a painter before turning to engraving in Venice, he established his reputation in Rome before being recruited by the English Royal Librarian Richard Dalt...