For the benefit of Mr. Giardini a concert of mvsick / [graphic]

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Title: For the benefit of Mr. Giardini a concert of mvsick / [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
Published / Created: [between 1768 and 1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "A scene from the Judgement of Midas; on the left, Apollo standing, holding a lyre in his right hand; on the left, Marsyas seated, playing Pan's flute; next to him, King Midas seated; behind them, three Nymphs; in an oval frame with palm leaves; a banner at top and another at bottom; after Cipriani; illustration to the second or fourth volume of 'History of Music' by Charles Burney (London: 1776)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption above and below image.
Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.279.
Copy with cartouche added at the top and bottom of oval. Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 17 and no. 18 in Folio 75 B28 799, and on page numbered 5 in Folio 75 B28 804.
On page numbered 5 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 10.7 x 11.2 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark; corners cut off.
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 12.2 x 19 cm, on sheet 16.8 x 25 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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