[The Muses Crowning the Bust of Pope.]
E. Maculer Sculp.t [after Angelica Kauffman] [c.1785] Stipple printed in sepia, sheet 145 x 190mm (5¾ x 7½"). Trimmed inside platemark; hole lower right outside image. Three female figures in a park, one of whom holds a crown of laurels to be placed on a bust of the Augustan poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). Copy in reverse of an engraving by P.W. Tomkins (after Angelica Kauffman) by the Paris-based engraver Maucler, who regularly pirated British prints for the continental market.
[Ref: 39844] £50.00
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