T. Gainsborough R.A. del. F. Bartolozzi sculps R.A.
[London: Dennett Jaques, 1790.]
Rare etching with stipple. Sheet 190 x 125mm (7½ x 5"). Trimmed to plate at sides; diagonal creases through upper left and lower right corners.
Francesco Ageno was ambassador of Genoa at London from 1760 to 1781. The portrait frontispiece to the sitter's 'Prose e rime del Signor Francesco D'Ageno'; engraved by Bartolozzi from a sketch by Richard Cosway of Gainsborough's portrait in the collection of Grolamo Tonioli. Bartolozzi erased Cosway's name in the published state after Gainsborough remonstrated.
BL: 000029152. Hone 2 II. From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18234]  £160.00