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Francesco Bartolozzi, engraver
Italian, circa 1725 - 1815
Minerva Instructing A Youthful Student, after Antonio Zucchi, 1773
Engraving and etching
60.6 x 45.5 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36201

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after, Antonio Zucchi

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Artist Biography: Engraver, born in Florence ca. 1725-1728 (authorities disagree re his birth date), worked in Joseph Wagner's shop in Venice from 1745, becoming his principal collaborator. Worked independently in Venice until leaving for Rome in 1760. Settled in London in 1764, moved to Lisbon 1802, where he died on 7 March 1815. See: Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981.~~Reference: De Vesme, A. & A. Calabi. Francesco Bertolozzi. Milan: 1928.~