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A Winged Genius Mourning the Death of Captain Cook (Tailpiece to Canto IV of "The Gardens")

Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, worked in Italy, England, and Portugal, 1728–1815)
1798

Medium/Technique Etching and engraving
Dimensions Sheet: 27.7 x 21.3 cm (10 7/8 x 8 3/8 in.)(with 22 mm margin at the bottom; trimmed within the platemark on the other three sides)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP10539
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné De Vesme/Calabi 1707, iii/iii; Tuer 346
Marks Verso, lower center, stamped in violet ink, the mark of the MFA Harvey D. Parker Collection (Lugt 1870)
ProvenanceHenry F. Sewall, New York (1816-1896)(cf. Lugt 1309); purchased by MFA November 1897