Print Description
Plate: Virtumnus &, Pomona. It shows the Roman god Vertumnus disguised as an old woman, speaking with Pomona in her orchard. Pomona is holding a sickle, while some baskets of fruit are nearby. Rare.
Made by William Dickinson after Pine.
Medium: mezzotint engraving / etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 31 x 43 cm (12.2 x 16.93 inch). Image size: 27.5 x 34.5 cm. (10.83 x 13.58 inch).
Condition: excellent, given age. Small paper loss of the upper right corner, upper left corner with tape remains. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
POMONA-VERTUMNUS-SEDUCTION-MYTHOLOGY | DP-B1-01
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Original master print, published in London, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson. The engraving is dated 1772 in the plate. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by William Dickinson after a painting by Robert Edge Pine (British, 1742-1788). .
Biography engraver: William Dickinson (1746-1823), mezzotint engraver, was born in London in 1746. Early in life he began to engrave in mezzotint, mostly caricatures and portraits after R. E. Pine, and in 1767 he was awarded a premium by the Society of Arts. In 1773 he commenced publishing his own works, and in 1778 entered into partnership with Thomas Watson, who engraved in both stipple and mezzotint, and who died in 1781. Dickinson appears to have been still carrying on the business of a printseller in 1791, but he afterwards removed to Paris, where he continued the practice of his art, and died in the summer of 1823.
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