Print Description
Medium: Copper engraving (etching) on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 32 x 49 cm (12.6 x 19.29 inch). Image size: 32 x 49 cm. (12.6 x 19.29 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Some paper loss in bottom margin, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
DIDO, NEOCLASSICAL PRINT, MUSEO PIO CLEMENTINO, GIUSEPPE PARINI, ANCIENT STATUE, CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGICAL ENGRAVING | PCO-B2-32
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From ‘Il Museo Pio-Clementino’, Rome, 1784.
Biography engraver: Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799) was an Italian poet, satirist, and neoclassical intellectual. Best known for his poem Il Giorno, Parini also worked as an engraver and held several academic and civic positions in Milan, contributing engravings to scientific and classical publications.
Biography artist: Vincenzo Dolcibene (c. 1746-1820) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, known for archaeological drawings used in scholarly publications such as Il Museo Pio Clementino.
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