Maternal Love
Medium
Etching and stipple engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (14.8 × 17.9 cm) (oval)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Fräulein Sofie Krick, 1933
Accession Number
33.3.2
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Giovanni Battista Cipriani|William Byrne · 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...