Idyll: Frontispiece to "The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill"

Francesco Bartolozzi Italian
 After Biagio Rebecca British
 Publisher John Bell British

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A shepherd holds a crook and stands next to a seated woman crowned with and holding flowers. The oval image is surrounded by a decorative frame. Bartolozzi engraved this print to adorn one of twenty-one volumes in "The poets of Great Britain, complete from Chaucer to Churchill" (Edinburgh: John Bell, 1777-1792).

Idyll: Frontispiece to "The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill", Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon), Engraving; second state of four

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