Venus Surrounded by Putti
Pond made a number of prints for a large project entitled "Prints in Imitation of Drawings" which publicised private collections of Old Master drawings. Employing a variety of subtle techniques he carefully replicated a range of media and support. Here using a combination of intaglio and relief techniques he reproduced a pen-and-ink drawing, with white heightening, on blue paper by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Parmigianino who was widely admired in eighteenth-century Britain. The lettering on the print indicates that Pond reproduced a drawing then in the collection of Sir Anthony Wescombe.
Artwork Details
- Title: Venus Surrounded by Putti
- Series/Portfolio: Prints in Imitation of Drawings
- Artist: Arthur Pond (British, London 1701–1758 London)
- Artist: After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore)
- Date: ca. 1735
- Medium: Etching, aquatint, and colored woodcut
- Dimensions: sheet: 6 5/8 x 1 in. (16.8 x 2.5 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1962
- Object Number: 62.602.274
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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