Print Description
Medium: Stipple engraving on wove (vellin) paper. Watermark: (illegable) N.H L??.
Sheet size: 20.5 x 26.2 cm (8.07 x 10.31 inch). Image size: 17 x 21.6 cm. (6.69 x 8.5 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Paper loss at bottom left, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, DESERT, RAPHAEL, WICAR, BERVIC, RELIGIOUS PRINT, OLD MASTER PRINT, FRENCH ENGRAVING, 1791 | PCO-A56-31
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Source: unknown, to be determined.
Biography artist: Raphael (1483-1520) was an Italian High Renaissance painter and architect, born in Urbino and active in Florence and Rome. Celebrated for his clarity of composition and idealized beauty, he is considered one of the greatest artists of Western art history. Charles Clement Bervic (1756-1822) was a French engraver and printmaker from Paris, renowned for his highly refined burin technique. He trained within the academic tradition and became one of the leading reproductive engravers of his time, producing works after major Old Master paintings.
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