[Apollo calling up the fine arts and sciences] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Apollo calling up the fine arts and sciences] [graphic].
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, artist, publisher.
Published / Created: [1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: B. West
Abstract: "Apollo alighting with a torch in his right hand, wings spread, gesturing with his left hand towards the arts and sciences, allegoriacal figures grouped on the right with Sculpture, leaning on a bas-relief of George III, Painting and Architecture in the foreground and a figure on the right with a globe, compass and other navigational tools; in an oval; after West."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Artist, printmaker, and publication information from lettered state described in the Calabi and de Vesme catalogue with imprint: London, Publish'd ... Octr. 1, 1789, by B. West ...
State from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge.
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 53.3 x 68 cm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Reproductions
Etchings England London 1789
Engravings England London 1789
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Apollo (Deity),
Subject (Topic): Mythology
Subjects: Apollo (Deity)
Mythology
England > London > 1789

Access: Public
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