Testamento di Evdamida di Corinto. Lascio ad Areteo mia Madre, Perche la Nvtrisca; A Carisseno la Mia Figlivola, perche le dia Marito, e la doti givsta il svo potere. F. Bartolozzi Fiorentino, disegno e scolpi in Londra l'anno MDCCLXV della grandezza delqvadro di N. Pvssino dipinto a olio in carta, nella Collezione di Tommaso Hollis, Inglese.
[N. Poussin pinx. F. Bartolozzi sculp. n.d. c.1765.]
Etching, with large margins. Plate 248 x 298mm. 9¾ x 11¾".
A scene from Lucian's 'Toxaris, or Friendship': Corinthian Eudamidas lying in a bed with a man sitting next to him and taking down the dictation of the will, and another man standing beside the dying man; at the end of the bed, at right, and old woman and a young woman mouring; book illustration to "Memoirs of Thomas Hollis" (London, 1780.)
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18340] £180.00
Etching, with large margins. Plate 248 x 298mm. 9¾ x 11¾".
A scene from Lucian's 'Toxaris, or Friendship': Corinthian Eudamidas lying in a bed with a man sitting next to him and taking down the dictation of the will, and another man standing beside the dying man; at the end of the bed, at right, and old woman and a young woman mouring; book illustration to "Memoirs of Thomas Hollis" (London, 1780.)
From the Norman Blackburn Collection.
[Ref: 18340] £180.00