Sculptura, or, The history and art of chalcography, and engraving in copper : with an ample
Image Count:
9
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Bound with Faithorne, W. The art of graveing London, 1662. "An advertisement" of Abraham Bosse’s "Traicte des manieres de graver en taille douce sur l’airain": [3] p. at end. and Dedication signed: J. Evelyn.
Subject (Topic):
Engraving --Early works to 1800, Engraving --History, and Mezzotint engraving--17th century
Collection Created:
London : Printed by J.C. for G. Beedle, and T. Collins, at the Middle-Temple Gate, and J. Crook in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662
Title devised by curator., Publication information from book in which this plate was published., Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753., Mounted on page 81 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 9.4 x 14.2 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Titus' garden, with an arcade of large columns, Lavinia running in from the right, a shawl flowing over her head and shoulders, reaching towards Marcus, who embraces his nephew as he runs frightened and confused by his aunt, clutching a copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucius in Roman uniform looks at her from between them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
Publish'd Sepr. 29th, 1788 by John & Josiah Boydell, No. 90 Cheapside, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. and Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Title assigned by the cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, with loss of title, imprint and placement directions., Place, publisher and date of publication from illustrations in the 1791 and 1792 editions of The History of Tom Jones. This illustration is not present in the Beinecke Library copies of either edition., Illustration to Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones ... , Book IX, Chapter 2., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs 1791 by J. Sibbald, Edinr
