Hon. Mr. Leicester Stanhope

by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Francesco Bartolozzi

$300 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A charming image of childhood by one of the greatest engravers of his day, after an original by the first president of the Royal Academy. Francesco Bartolozzi is undoubtedly England's most famous eighteenth century stipple engraver. An Italian by birth, Bartolozzi was trained in the Florentine Academy and apprenticed to the Venetian engraver Joseph Wagner. He was an accomplished painter and engraver and he began his career engraving plates after the Italian masters. With an

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