Svbsn: Masqe: Ranelagh XIIII. June. MDCCLXXVI [graphic]

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Title: Svbsn: Masqe: Ranelagh XIIII. June. MDCCLXXVI [graphic]
Alternative Title: Subsn: Masqee Ranelagh
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
Published / Created: [1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Ticket; the birth of Venus; Venus standing in front of the sea, naked, facing front, with arms up, combing her hair with fingers; in an oval on a console; two birds above the oval, suspending a banner which hangs over the console; two putti seated at each end on the console, holding masks: comedy mask on the right, tragedy mask on the left; after Cipriani."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Lettered within image on banner above title with "HDV".
On page numbered 21 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.2 x 11 cm
Language: English

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

Access: Public
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