[Bacchanalian festival; a classical cameo] XLIX.
G.B. Cipriani del. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Etching printed in brown ink on india paper, sheet 260 x 200mm. 10½ x 8". Trimmed within plate; light spotting.
Two satyr-type male figures and a female reveller. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2306. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21169] £75.00
[London, c.1781-1791.]
Etching printed in brown ink on india paper, sheet 260 x 200mm. 10½ x 8". Trimmed within plate; light spotting.
Two satyr-type male figures and a female reveller. After Giovanni Battista Cipriani's (1727 - 1785) study for 'Gemmarum antiquarum delectus: ex præstantioribus desumptus, quæ in Dactyliothecis Ducis Marlburiensis conservantur (Marlborough gems)'; a two volume folio of antiquities in the collection of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough.
De Vesme 2306. See BL 139.h.3,4. 683.k.9,10.
[Ref: 21169] £75.00
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