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Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99), Adam and Eve in Paradise, 1790
- Title:
- Adam and Eve in Paradise
- Date:
- 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Stipple engraving, line engraving and etching
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "Drawn by J.B.Cipriani R.A. & T.Hearne. | Haste hither Eve, and worth thy sight beheld | Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape | Comes this way moving; seems another morn | Ris'n on mid noon~----"; lettered, lower right: "The Landscape by W.Byrne & B.T.Pouncy. | ---- Some great behest from heav'n | To us perhaps he brins, and will vouch safe | This day to be our guest. | Milton, Book 5th."; lettered, lower center: "The Figures engraved by F.Bartolozzi R.A. | ADAM AND EVE | In Paradise. | London Published as the Act directs by W.Byrne. No.79 Titchfield Street. 4th June, 1790."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.19694
- 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:37976
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