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Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99), The Freeing of Amoret, 1792
- Title:
- The Freeing of Amoret
- Date:
- 1792
- Materials & Techniques:
- Stipple engraving
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "John Opie R.A. Pinxt. | And, rising up, gan streight to overloooke | Those cursed leaves; his charmes back to reverse; | Full dreadfull things out of that balefull booke | He red, and measure'd many a sad verse, | That horrour gan the virgin's hart to perse,"; lettered, lower right: "F.Bartolozzi R.A. sculpt. | And, her farse locks up stared stiffe on end, | Hearing him those same bloody lynes reherse; | And all the while he red she did extend | Her sword high over him, if ought he did offend. | From Spensers Fairie Queene, Book. III."; lettered, lower center: "The FREEING of AMORET | London, Published Feby.20.1792. by Thos. Macklin, 39. Fleet Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.19643
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:37766
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