Dido [graphic]

Description

Title: Dido [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785, artist.
Boydell, John, 1720-1804, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1780, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Abstract: "Dido, supported on a pyre by a woman wearing a veil and diadem, fainting with grief, a dagger at her side, an old woman standing behind to left and weeping women gathered on the right; in an oval."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title from text below image.
Three lines of text below title: Omnis et una delapsus calor, atq: in ventos vita recessit. Virg. IV, 705. The struggling soul was loos'd & life dissolv'd in air. Dryden.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 43 x 49 cm.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 40.7 x 47 cm
Language: English

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