A muse (?). Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.

  • Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.
Date:
[between 1740 and 1749?]
Reference:
663875i
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About this work

Description

A woman holding a scroll in her right hand and a pipe in her left hand. A sculpture apparently known as a muse and in the Capitoline Museums, Rome: not found in Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[London] : [R. Dalton?], [between 1740 and 1749?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 52.8 x 30.9 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Musa in Capitolio. R. Dalton fecit.

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663875i

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Where to find it

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

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