Mr. Fiervilles ball [graphic].

Description

Title: Mr. Fiervilles ball [graphic].
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785, artist.
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Ticket; on the left, a woman crowned with laurel leaves, seated in profile to right, playing the lyre; on the right, a young woman, crowned with flowers, dancing; next to her, a putto playing the cymbals; in an oval with laurel leaves; after Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.343.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Annotated with "Almack's, Tuesday April the 25th, Fiervilles" in contemporary hand in lower right corner, and "N. 171" in upper left.
On page numbered 3 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 12.9 x 9.7 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark; upper right corner cut away with no loss of design.
Annotated with "fiervilles" in contemporary hand in lower right corner.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 14.0 x 11.0 cm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England 1790
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Proofs
Tickets
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1790
18th century

Access: Public
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