Diva Magdalena [graphic]

Description

Title: Diva Magdalena [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Correggio, 1489?-1534, artist.
Macklin, Thomas, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 June 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pullish'd [sic] June 1, 1790, by T. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street
Abstract: "St. Mary Magdalene, lying on her stomach in a landscape left to right, her upper body naked, propping up her head with her right hand, reading a book supported with her left arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description: Title etched below image.
State from Calabi and de Vesme catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Tipped in at page 151 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 37.1 x 47 cm
Edition: [State 3].
Language: English

Genre: Reproductions
Stipple engravings England London 1790
Etchings England London 1790
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mary Magdalene, Saint,
Subjects: Mary Magdalene, Saint
England > London > 1790
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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