Francesco Bartolozzi

Francesco Bartolozzi, an Italian-born engraver whose career unfolded in later eighteenth-century London, is known for his delicate stipple engravings and chalk drawings after portraits and theatrical subjects. His hand is represented here by a small group of drawings and prints made between 1760 and 1794, in which black and red chalk, sometimes heightened with white, dominates, alongside red chalk with graphite and a few stipple engravings with etching. The sheets include impressions up to 1794, among them portraits and scenes of Shakespearean actors such as John Henderson as Iago.

15 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Head of a Woman (1760–1815)

1760–1815 · Red crayon

William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland

1764–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

Richard Brocklesby, physician

1764–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

Charles Pratt, Baron Camden (later 1st Earl Camden)

1764–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

Frederick, Lord North

1764–1802 · Black, red, and white chalk

Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham and 9th Baron Howard

1764–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

The Virgin with the Fish

1775 · Etching and engraving

John Ward, 2nd Viscount Dudley and Ward

1779–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, William, 2nd Viscount Courtenay, de jure 8th Earl of Devon, and George William Coventry, 6th Earl of Coventry

1779–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

John Hinchcliffe, Bishop of Peterborough

1779–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

1779–1802 · Black and red chalk, varnished

John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's Othello)

1786 · Stipple engraving and etching; third state of three

John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's "Othello")

1786 · Stipple engraving and etching; second state of three

Anonymous portrait (ca. 1794–1802, Met-Objekt 2109)

ca. 1794–1802 · Red chalk and graphite

Anonymous portrait (ca. 1794–1802, Met-Objekt 2110)

ca. 1794–1802 · Red chalk and graphite