![[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]](jpegs/9718.jpg)
[Apollo holding his lyre, concert ticket.]
I.B.C.Inv. F.B. sculp.
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching in sepia, with small margins. Plate 115 x 115mm. 4½ x 4½". Glued to album page at right edge.
The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, their initials only inscribed. Before publication line added.
From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. De Vesme: 1915; i/iv. See 10558, 10559, 21208 and 21209 for other states.
[Ref: 9718] £180.00
[n.d., c.1780.]
Etching in sepia, with small margins. Plate 115 x 115mm. 4½ x 4½". Glued to album page at right edge.
The cartouches above and below uninscribed. In classical mythology, as the leader of the Muses (Apollon Musagetes) Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry. Engraved by Bartolozzi after Cipriani, their initials only inscribed. Before publication line added.
From the collection of Cecil Bisshopp Harmsworth, 1st Baron Harmsworth. De Vesme: 1915; i/iv. See 10558, 10559, 21208 and 21209 for other states.
[Ref: 9718] £180.00