For the benefit of Madam Banti [graphic]

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Title: For the benefit of Madam Banti [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848.
Published / Created: [1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Muse seated on clouds, in her right arm holding a putto who wears a tragedy mask, with her left hand lifting a comic mask which another putto holds; beside her, a lyre and a banner; after Edward Francis Burney; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from image.
Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.238.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
On page numbered 1 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of design.
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; oval 11.2 x 9.0 cm.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 12.3 x 16 cm, on sheet 14.6 x 19 cm
Language: English

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