Francis Bartolozzi, Esq.r
London, Pub 12 Oct. 1783 by R. Menageot, No.49 Broad Street, Soho
Stipple printed in brown, scarce, platemark 155 x 130mm (6¼ x 5"), with very large margins. Repaired wormhole title area
Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver who was elected a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). Bartolozzi met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, and Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England Bartolozzi 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. The reproductive engraver Robert Menageot (1748-1783, fl.) published his original profile portrait of Bartolozzi in 1778. This slightly different plate, published by Menageot, was presumably made five years later because the success of the first plate had caused the plate to wear down from printing so many impressions.
Not in O'D; for other versions of the same likeness see refs.35725 and 40271.
[Ref: 47408] £140.00
Stipple printed in brown, scarce, platemark 155 x 130mm (6¼ x 5"), with very large margins. Repaired wormhole title area
Francesco Bartolozzi (1725-1815), Florentine engraver who was elected a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768 (the RA did not admit engravers at this time but made an exception in his case). Bartolozzi met George III's librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, and Dalton invited Bartolozzi to London with a promise of an appointment as engraver to the king. In England Bartolozzi 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. The reproductive engraver Robert Menageot (1748-1783, fl.) published his original profile portrait of Bartolozzi in 1778. This slightly different plate, published by Menageot, was presumably made five years later because the success of the first plate had caused the plate to wear down from printing so many impressions.
Not in O'D; for other versions of the same likeness see refs.35725 and 40271.
[Ref: 47408] £140.00