![[The Rape of Dejanira]](jpegs/43419.jpg)
[The Rape of Dejanira]
G.B. Cipriani invt. F. Bartolozzi sculpt.
Publish'd. as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi, 1787.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 255 x 310mm (10 x 12¼") very large margins.
Very dramatic image showing Dejanira abducted by the centaur Nessus. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited 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. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 455.iii
[Ref: 43419] £220.00
Publish'd. as the Act directs by F. Bartolozzi, 1787.
Etching printed in sepia, platemark 255 x 310mm (10 x 12¼") very large margins.
Very dramatic image showing Dejanira abducted by the centaur Nessus. Etching by Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver and founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. After meeting George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, Dalton invited 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. This is the medium employed here, one of many prints he made from designs by his fellow Italian, G.B. Cipriani (it was published in 'A Set of Etchings by Francis Bartolozzi R.A. in Imitation of Drawings from the Sketches of the Late John Baptist Cipriani R.A.' in 1788.
Calabi & De Vesme 455.iii
[Ref: 43419] £220.00