Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)after William Hamilton, 1751–1801, British
Title:
March
Date:
1793
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "W.Hamilton R.A. Pinxt. | Should I my steps turn to the rural Seat, | There well-pleas'd, I might the various polity survey | of the mixt houshold kind, the careful hen | Calls all her chirps family around."; lettered, lower right: "F.Bartolozzi R.A. Sculpt. | Fed and defended by the fearless Cock, | Whose breast with Arduos flame, as on he walks, | Graceful and Crows defiance. | Vide. Thomsons Spring."; lettered, lower center: "MARCH | London, Publsih'd Augst.20th.1793, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection