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Hector Reproaching Paris

Print
1788 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This colour stipple engraving is framed in a contemporary verre églomisé frame. Verre églomisé, from the French term meaning 'glass gilded', is a process where the backside of the glass is gilded with gold or metal leaf using a gelatin adhesive. The result is a mirror-like, reflective finish in which designs are then engraved. The technique has along history, but its name is derived from 18th-century French decorator and art-dealer Jean-Baptise Glomy (1711–1786) who was responsible for its repopularization.

This became a fashionable method for framing coloured prints towards the end of the 18th century; it was also popular for framing embroidered pictures. This frame is lettered with the title of the print. There is another impression in the collection with full lettering (see E.5059-1910).

Stipple engraving is said to have been invented in France, but it was developed and became popular in England. It was essentially a means of reproduction rather than a method for original printmaking. It was popular for reproducing paintings of decorative mythological, classical and pastoral subjects, as well as portraits. The work of Angelica Kauffmann, who made a specility of such subjects, was much reproduced by this method.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleHector Reproaching Paris (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour stipple engraving
Brief description
Facius, G S - after Kauffmann, A
Physical description
General Description: Hector Reproaching Paris. After a painting by Angelica Kauffman. Published by J. and J. Boydell, 1788. In a gilded frame with verre eglomise.

Hector Reproaching Paris, engraving after a painting by Angelica Kauffmann. In a gilded frame with verre eglomise.
Dimensions
  • Sight height: 42.2cm
  • Sight width: 58.3cm
  • Frame height: 85cm
  • Frame width: 110cm
Sight measurment 42.2 x 58.3 cm. Size of frame 85 x 110 cm.
Credit line
Given anonymously
Object history
Exhibitions: The Image Multiplied. Printed Reproductions of Paintings and Drawings 1480-1980, Victoria and Albert Museum, 25 November 1987 to 14 February 1988.

Notes: The verre eglomise is lettered with the title of the print. Another impression, with full lettering, is E.5059-1910.
Production
After a painting by Angelica Kauffman. Published by J. and J. Boydell, 1788.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This colour stipple engraving is framed in a contemporary verre églomisé frame. Verre églomisé, from the French term meaning 'glass gilded', is a process where the backside of the glass is gilded with gold or metal leaf using a gelatin adhesive. The result is a mirror-like, reflective finish in which designs are then engraved. The technique has along history, but its name is derived from 18th-century French decorator and art-dealer Jean-Baptise Glomy (1711–1786) who was responsible for its repopularization.

This became a fashionable method for framing coloured prints towards the end of the 18th century; it was also popular for framing embroidered pictures. This frame is lettered with the title of the print. There is another impression in the collection with full lettering (see E.5059-1910).

Stipple engraving is said to have been invented in France, but it was developed and became popular in England. It was essentially a means of reproduction rather than a method for original printmaking. It was popular for reproducing paintings of decorative mythological, classical and pastoral subjects, as well as portraits. The work of Angelica Kauffmann, who made a specility of such subjects, was much reproduced by this method.
Bibliographic references
  • V.A.E.D. Manners, Angelica Kauffmann R.A. : her Life and Works, 1924, p.225
  • S.Lambert, The Image Multiplied. Five centuries of printed reproductions of paintings and drawings, 1987, no.201.
Collection
Accession number
E.494-1988

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Record createdNovember 24, 2008
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