Idyll: Frontispiece to "The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill"

Francesco Bartolozzi|Biagio Rebecca|John Bell

March 13, 1782 · Engraving; second state of four · Drawings and Prints

Idyll: Frontispiece to "The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill" — Francesco Bartolozzi|Biagio Rebecca|John Bell

A shepherd holds a crook and stands next to a seated woman crowned with and holding flowers. The oval image is surrounded by a decorative frame. Bartolozzi engraved this print to adorn one of twenty-one volumes in "The poets of Great Britain, complete from Chaucer to Churchill" (Edinburgh: John Bell, 1777-1792).

Artist
Francesco Bartolozzi|Biagio Rebecca|John Bell
Date
March 13, 1782
Medium
Engraving; second state of four
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008

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