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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Chryseis Restored to her Father, parallel text in French]](jpegs/46757.jpg)
[Chryseis Restored to her Father, parallel text in French]
[G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. - F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1786.]
[London, Publish'd June 12.th 1786, by S. Vivares]
A rare stipple, printed in sepia, platemark 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Proof before all letters. Small margins.
Scene from Homer's 'The Odyssey' in which the enslaved Trojan woman Chryseis is returned to her father after Apollo unleashes a plague on her Greek captors. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case, getting around the rules by electing Bartolozzi as a painter). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton enticed Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal.
Calabi & de Vesme 381 ii/v (before all letters, with etched border). Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire.
[Ref: 46757] £420.00
[G.B. Cipriani inv. et del. - F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1786.]
[London, Publish'd June 12.th 1786, by S. Vivares]
A rare stipple, printed in sepia, platemark 390 x 450mm (15¼ x 17¾"). Proof before all letters. Small margins.
Scene from Homer's 'The Odyssey' in which the enslaved Trojan woman Chryseis is returned to her father after Apollo unleashes a plague on her Greek captors. Stipple engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815) after his frequent collaborator Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-85). Bartolozzi was born in Florence but migrated to England, and in 1768 was elected as a founding member of the Royal Academy in London (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case, getting around the rules by electing Bartolozzi as a painter). He was already hailed as the best engraver in Italy when he met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in 1763. Dalton enticed Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England he became the most celebrated exponent of the 'stipple' technique whereby he produced prints using dots rather than lines. In 1801 Bartolozzi was invited to Lisbon to reform the royal printing press, and he spent his final years in Portugal.
Calabi & de Vesme 381 ii/v (before all letters, with etched border). Provenance: Edge Hill, Cheshire.
[Ref: 46757] £420.00