Prudence, Love and Beauty
September 15, 1782
Medium
Etching and stipple engraving, printed in brown ink; fifth state
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 10 7/8 in. (23.8 × 27.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942
Accession Number
42.119.106
About the Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Giovanni Battista Cipriani|Torre & Co. · 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...