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Giovanni Battista Cipriani

Header: Giovanni Battista Cipriani
Also known as: Giovanni Battista Cipriani; primary name: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista; other name: Cipriani, John Baptist
Details: individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Italian; Male
Life dates: 1727-1785
Biography: Historical and decorative painter and draughtsman; b. Florence; d. Hammersmith 1785; to London 1755; Royal Academician, Foundation RA 1768; exhibited RA 1769-79; trained in Florence by Hugford; acquainted with Chambers and Wilton in Rome in early 1750s; joined Wilton as instructor at Duke of Richmond's short-lived Academy 1758; his friend Bartolozzi engraved many of his works; taught J.H. Mortimer; collaborated with Barret, Mortimer and others. Posthumous sale 1786-87 (Lugt 4007/4168)

1,292 related objects

book of prints; print

Museum number: 1953,0915.2.1-80 |
Producer name: Published by:Agapito FranzettiPrint made by:François Morel |
Production date: 1790-1820 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1847,0204.76 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Abraham RaimbachAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 23 September 1799

drawing

Museum number: Pp,5.150 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.381 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 2019,7015.52 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1755-1780

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.376 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.385 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.378 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 2004,0330.3 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1760s

drawing

Museum number: 2019,7015.53 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1755-1780

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.380 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.383 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.375 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: S,8.110 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1941,1108.11 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Charles Joseph NatoireAfter:Guglielmo Cortese |
Production date: 1766-1777

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.374 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1991,1005.5 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1856,0712.361 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 2019,7015.50 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1755-1780

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.384 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 1856,0712.362 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.386 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 2019,7015.54 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1755-1780

drawing

Museum number: 1937,1120.1 |
Producer name: Attributed to:Giovanni Battista CiprianiFormerly attributed to:Louis Laguerre |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.382 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: 2019,7015.51 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1755-1780

drawing

Museum number: 2019,7015.49 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1755-1780

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.379 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.377 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

drawing; print study

Museum number: 2011,7084.49 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Richard EarlomAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1787

drawing

Museum number: 1868,0822.6503 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1762-1785

drawing

Museum number: Gg,3.373 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Drawn by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1727-1785

medal

Museum number: M.8631 |
Producer name: Designed by:Giovanni Battista CiprianiMade by:John Kirk |
Production date: 1758 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

photographic print

Museum number: 1860,1013.196 |
Producer name: After:Giovanni Battista CiprianiPhotographed by:Philip Henry Delamotte |
Production date: 1858 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

plaque; frame

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.571 |
Producer name: Designed by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1768-1780 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)Decorated in:London (England)

plaque

Museum number: 1887,0307,I.578 |
Producer name: Modelled by:John FlaxmanDesigned by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Factory in:Etruria (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1871,0812.2914 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Print made by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1760

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.1333 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1773

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6472 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6485 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6455 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Title: Effigies Antoni Dominici Gabbiani Florentini Raccolta di cento pensieri diversi di Anton Domeni |
Museum number: 1854,1211.401.1 |
Producer name: Print made by:Carlo FaucciAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1751 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1982,U.4450 |
Producer name: Print made by:John Keyse SherwinAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1777

print

Title: Raccolta di cento pensieri diversi di Anton Domenico Gabbiani |
Museum number: 1854,1211.401.53 |
Producer name: Print made by:Giovanni Battista CiprianiAfter:Antonio Domenico Gabbiani |
Production date: 1762 |
Production place: Published in:Florence (city)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6484 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The Secretaries Jewel, of the Lodge of the Nine Muses |
Museum number: 1873,0712.463 |
Producer name: After:Giovanni Battista CiprianiPrint made by:William Satchwell Leney |
Production date: 1795

print; book-illustration

Museum number: P,4.119 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziIntermediary draughtsman:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1780

print

Museum number: 1852,0313.23 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1897,1231.359 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1776

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1897,1231.211 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1780

print; book-illustration

Museum number: S,8.17 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Museum number: S,8.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6574 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.6625 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Museum number: 1981,U.260 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790s

print

Title: The triumph of beauty and love |
Museum number: 1940,1109.71 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1783

print

Museum number: 1868,0808.2686 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1776

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6596 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.3882 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1773

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6598 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Title: St Bruno |
Museum number: S,6.55 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1782

print; book-illustration

Museum number: S,8.88 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Title: Disegni originali d'eccellenti pittori |
Museum number: 1857,0214.104 |
Producer name: After:Giovanni Battista CiprianiPrint made by:Saint-Morys |
Production date: 1755-1795

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6490 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Title: St Bruno |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2678 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1782

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6462 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1852,0313.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Title: Iohn Milton |
Museum number: P,6.78 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Print made by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1760

print; book-illustration

Museum number: S,8.87 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: S,8.76 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Title: Edmund Ludlow Knight of the Shire for the County of Wilts in the Parliament which began Nov. III. MD |
Museum number: P,4.141 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Print made by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1760

print; visiting-card; invitation

Museum number: 1917,1208.963 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1796

print; bill-head

Museum number: 1897,1231.288 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1785

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.2194 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1764-1785

print

Museum number: 1868,0822.6583 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Title: Thomas Hollis Angli |
Museum number: 1870,0514.1901 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Print made by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:British Isles

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1868,0822.6539 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1780

print; book-illustration

Title: Vincentius Martinelli J.U.D |
Museum number: 1917,1208.989 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1766

print

Title: Interno del Pantheon, in oggi la Chiesa di S. Mari Nuova Collezione di Vedute di Roma |
Museum number: 1915,1211.2.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Giovanni Battista CiprianiAfter:Giovanni Battista Piranesi |
Production date: 1780-1818 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Nymphs Bathing |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2744 |
Producer name: Print made by:Victor Marie PicotAfter:John James Barralet |
Production date: 1773

print

Museum number: D,3.523 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1777

print

Museum number: 1917,1208.1117 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1775

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6608 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Title: Iohn Milton |
Museum number: P,3.195 |
Producer name: BIOG22876 Print made by:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1760-1761

print

Museum number: 1897,1231.268 |
Producer name: Print made by:William SharpAfter:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1767

print; bill-head; ticket

Museum number: C,3.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1781

print

Title: Turkish |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2878 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1775

print; bill-head

Museum number: 1897,1231.257 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1781

print; visiting-card

Museum number: C,1.1676-1696 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPrint made by:Francesco Bartolozzi |
Production date: 1778-1794

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.6489 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print

Museum number: 1870,1008.2333 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1775

print

Museum number: S,8.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; book-illustration

Museum number: S,8.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1790-1791

print; visiting-card

Museum number: C,1.1163-1182 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPrint made by:Robert Blyth |
Production date: 1778-1788

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1855,0609.976 |
Producer name: Print made by:Conrad Martin MetzPublished by:Conrad Martin Metz |
Production date: 1798

print

Title: The heroism of Prince Edward, son of Henry VI |
Museum number: 1868,0822.7880 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1786

print; book-illustration

Title: Vincentius Martinelli J.U.D |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2436 |
Producer name: Print made by:Francesco BartolozziAfter:Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
Production date: 1766

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