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Clementi & Co's Edition of Handel's Songs

Print
1759-1815 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista (designer)
Bartolozzi, Francesco (printmaker)
Place of origin
England (printed)

'Clementi & Co's Edition of Handel's Songs'. Etching and stipple engraving, probably intended to be a frontispiece. Handel's full name, birth and death dates given, below an illustration of a woman and cherub holding up a framed portrait of the composer, within a foliate frame with two griffins.


Object details

Category
Printed Pages & Sheets
Object type
Print
TitleClementi & Co's Edition of Handel's Songs
Materials and techniques
Etching and stipple engraving
Printing Ink
Etching
Stipple Engraving
Brief description
'Clementi & Co's Edition of Handel's Songs'. Etching and stipple engraving, probably intended to be a frontispiece. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi, after a design by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, for Clementi & Co. England. 1759-1815.
Physical description
'Clementi & Co's Edition of Handel's Songs'. Etching and stipple engraving, probably intended to be a frontispiece. Handel's full name, birth and death dates given, below an illustration of a woman and cherub holding up a framed portrait of the composer, within a foliate frame with two griffins.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34.5cm
  • Width: 27.2cm
Dimensions taken from: Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, c.1991.
Marks and inscriptions
  • GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL / BORN at Halle in Saxony, THE 24th OF FEBy. 1682. / Died in London, the 13th of April 1759. (Within the central decorative frame.)
  • For Clementi & Co's. EDITION of Handel's Songs. (Below the central decorative frame.)
Historical context
Bartolozzi arrived in England in 1764 already possessing a reputation for his fine classical formulations and mastery of the stipple technique, replacing the simple linear hatching of engraving with dots and stars to achieve soft tonal renderings. Working frequently to the drawings of his one-time pupil Cipriani, Bartolozzi produced an estimated 2,500 plates including many music title pages and benefit tickets for musical friends and performers. Cipriani's layouts and Bartolozzi's technique recall Parisian music-titles of the 1730s engraved by Simon Henri Thomassin (1687-1741) after designs by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1745) and by Jacques Philippe Lebas (1707-1783).
Subjects depicted
Frontispieces (Illustrations)
Composer
Portrait
Frames (Ornament Areas)
Cherub
Woman
Griffins
Handel, George Frideric
Bibliographic reference
Edge, Kevin. The Art of Selling Songs : Graphics for the Music Business, 1690-1990. London : Futures Publications, c.1991.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
29599K

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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