print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.7295
- Title
- Object: Michel Angelo Buonarroti
- Description
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Portrait of Michelangelo, bust, facing front; wearing dark coat with standing collar over frilled white collar; illustration from an unidentified publication; within a ruled border; scratched-letter state. 1818
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1818
- Dimensions
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Height: 166 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 114 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1848,1125.253 and 1892,0714.569 for lettered proofs from the same plate.
See 1848,1125.254 1848,1125.255 and 1892,0714.568 for impressions from the second version, engraved by Armstrong after the same portrait in 1821-1822.
A letter written by Edward Warmsley about presenting impressions of these prints in his possession to William Beckford is kept with Cosmo Armstrong's prints after Michelangelo (see 1978,U.1709 [not catalogued] dated 21 January 1935).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.7295