Captain Cook [graphic]

Description

Title: Captain Cook [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created: [1798]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Cul-de-lampe of a naked winged child seated on the ground, his left hand on his left cheek, with an expression of sorrow, his left elbow resting on a log lettered: "Captain Cook"; on the left, a ship on the sea; after Francisco Vieira; illustration to page 146 in the fourth canto in 'The Gardens' by Abbé Delille (translated by Mrs Montolieu, London: 1805; second edition); published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from Calabi and de Vesme.
Sheet trimmed to image, resulting in loss of lettering.
On page numbered 43 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 7.8 x 12 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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