[Thalia seated on a rock] [graphic]

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Title: [Thalia seated on a rock] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Muse
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785, artist.
Published / Created: [ca. 1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Thalia; seated on a rock, head in profile to right, holding a lyre in her left hand and a mask in right; on the right, a winged child flying in the air, in profile to left, trying to touch the mask with his right hand; another mask and Pan flute on ground; in an oval on pedestal; after Cipriani; illustration to 'Songs, duets etc. in the Duenna, ... as performed at the Theatre Royal in the Covent Garden' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (fifteenth edition, London: 1776)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Added title from Calabi and de Vesme: Muse.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
On page numbered 41 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 18.4 x 13 cm
Edition: [2nd state].
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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