[Orpheus and Eurydice in the underworld] [graphic].

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Title: [Orpheus and Eurydice in the underworld] [graphic].
Alternative Title: For the benefit of Mr. Giardini, a concert of vocal & instrumental musick
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created: [1767]
Publication Place: ondon
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Orpheus and Eurydice walking in the underworld; on the right, three dogs; on the left, a putto holding a torch and a banner; in an oval frame with palm leaves; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1767."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1868,0822.1262.
Reverse copy with cartouche added at the bottom of oval. Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 5 in Folio 75 B28 799.
Added title from later impression with caption in banner, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy on page numbered 5 in Folio 75 B28 804.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
On page numbered 5 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 8.8 x 11.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.7 x 17 cm
Language: English

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