The Zingara, also known as the Egyptian woman. Etching by G. Scotin after R. Dalton, 1745.

  • Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.
Date:
27 May 1745
Reference:
663735i
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Description

The sculpture known as the "Zingara", formerly also as the "Egyptian woman", of which two versions exist, both from the Villa Borghese, one later in Versailles: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit. In the etching the woman points upwards with her left hand and downwards with her right hand

Publication/Creation

[London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament [by R. Dalton?], 27 May 1745.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 54 x 31.4 cm

Lettering

Mulier egyptia, ex villa borghensi. R. Dalton del. ; G. Scotin sculp. To S.r Hugh Smithson Bart this plate is humbly inscribed by his most humble servant R. Dalton

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 339-341, no. 95 (do not mention this print)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663735i

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  • album of etchings by R. Dalton after ancient sculptures in Italy

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