Venus Surrounded by Putti

Arthur Pond|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

ca. 1735 · Etching, aquatint, and colored woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Pond made a number of prints for a large project entitled "Prints in Imitation of Drawings" which publicised private collections of Old Master drawings. Employing a variety of subtle techniques he carefully replicated a range of media and support. Here using a combination of intaglio and relief techniques he reproduced a pen-and-ink drawing, with white heightening, on blue paper by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Parmigianino who was widely admired in eighteenth-century Britain. The lettering on the print indicates that Pond reproduced a drawing then in the collection of Sir Anthony Wescombe.

Artist

Arthur Pond|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

Date

ca. 1735

Medium

Etching, aquatint, and colored woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1962