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Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)
An Italian peasant dance c. 1764-1803
Pencil and watercolour | 35.5 x 42.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 913306
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815)
An Italian peasant dance c. 1764-1803
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A drawing of women and children in a clearing, dancing and playing pipes and tambourine. Inscribed in a hand associated with the dealer Colnaghi: Original by Bartolozzi.
The Italian engraver and draughtsman Francesco Bartolozzi met the Royal Librarian Richard Dalton in Italy in 1763, who was in Italy to find works to buy for George III's collection. Dalton persuaded him to come to England in 1764, where he was appointed Engraver to The King and became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 1768. Over the next forty years Bartolozzi was widely admired for the prints he made after drawings by Guercino, Holbein and Michelangelo in the Royal Collection, his engravings after his contemporaries Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Benjamin West and Angelika Kauffmann, and the prints he made for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. He was also known as the leading exponent of the stipple manner technique, often using brown, red and ochre coloured inks.Provenance
Probably the 'Drawing of Rural Dancing by Bartolozzi' bought by the Prince of Wales from Colnaghi on 18 August 1803. Royal Archives Invoice 27421.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Pencil and watercolour
Measurements
35.5 x 42.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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Other number(s)
RL 13306
