Aur o Gymru’r Oes Efydd

Aur o Gymru'r Oes Efydd

"Genius Raising the Fine Arts"

WEST, Benjamin (Engraver)

Pwnc

Celf

Rhif yr Eitem

NMW A 27920

Creu/Cynhyrchu

1738-1820
Mezzotint engraver, one of the few to be a founder member of the RA (engravers were not able to become Academicians); he engraved the Guercino drawings at Windsor, and Holbein's portraits of the court of Henry VIII; also Cipriani and Kauffmann, popularising both these artists to the English eighteenth-century audience.
Rôl: Artist
Rôl: Engraver
Cyfnod: 1789

Derbyniad

Gift, 25/8/1958

Mesuriadau

h(cm) image size:49.1
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:62.6
w(cm)
h(cm) primary support:57.1
h(cm)
w(cm) primary support:70
w(cm)

Techneg

Engraving and etching on paper

Deunydd

Paper
Ink

Lleoliad

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