![[Apollo calling up the Fine Arts and Sciences.]](jpegs/50427.jpg)
[Apollo calling up the Fine Arts and Sciences.]
B. West inv.t Historical Painter to his Majesty, R.A. F. Bartolozzi sculp.t Historical Engraver to his Majesty.
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Sheet 530 x 660mm (21 x 26"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Apollo alighting, torch in hand and wings spread, gesturing towards allegorical figures of the arts and sciences. Half-hidden is a bas-relief of George III. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor,which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 557.
[Ref: 50427] £2,000.00
[London Published as the Act directs Oct.r 1789 by B. West, Newman Street.]
Oval etching. Sheet 530 x 660mm (21 x 26"). Framed. Trimmed within plate, losing publication line?
Apollo alighting, torch in hand and wings spread, gesturing towards allegorical figures of the arts and sciences. Half-hidden is a bas-relief of George III. One of nine designs by Bartolozzi for the ceiling of the Queen's Lodge at Windsor,which was pulled down in 1823 by George IV.
De Vesme 557.
[Ref: 50427] £2,000.00