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A Nymph Drying Herself

Etcher Thomas Rowlandson British
After Francesco Bartolozzi Italian
1790–99
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Nymph Drying Herself
  • Series/Portfolio: Classical Nudes
  • Etcher: Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
  • Artist: After Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon)
  • Artist: After Giovanni Battista Cipriani (Italian, Florence 1727–1785 Hammersmith (active London))
  • Date: 1790–99
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 9 3/4 × 8 in. (24.7 × 20.3 cm)
    Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 7/16 in. (27 × 21.5 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
  • Object Number: 59.533.400
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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