![[Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus] This Plate is Inscribed to John Gideon Loten, Esq.r late Governor of Ceylon](jpegs/53317.jpg)
[Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus] This Plate is Inscribed to John Gideon Loten, Esq.r late Governor of Ceylonby his most devoted humble Servant Francis Bartolozzi.
F. Bartolozzi invent et sculp. 1775.
Published'd according to Act of Parl.t 12th Jen.y 1775.
Stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. 195 x 165mm (7¾ x 6½") with very wide margins.
Johan Gideon Loten (1710-89) was Dutch East India Company's Governor of Zeylan, taking the opportunity to collect natural history specimens. Soon after he returned to Europe in 1758 he moved to London, where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. He donated watercolours, stuffed birds and mineral stones to the newly-founded British Museum and allowed Thomas Pennant and George Edward access to his personal collection, which they described in their books. However, after the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1780 Loten decided to return to Utrecht.
[Ref: 53317] £220.00
Published'd according to Act of Parl.t 12th Jen.y 1775.
Stipple and etching, printed in sanguine. 195 x 165mm (7¾ x 6½") with very wide margins.
Johan Gideon Loten (1710-89) was Dutch East India Company's Governor of Zeylan, taking the opportunity to collect natural history specimens. Soon after he returned to Europe in 1758 he moved to London, where he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1760. He donated watercolours, stuffed birds and mineral stones to the newly-founded British Museum and allowed Thomas Pennant and George Edward access to his personal collection, which they described in their books. However, after the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in 1780 Loten decided to return to Utrecht.
[Ref: 53317] £220.00