The Judgement of Paris

Reference: S49871
Author Simon Watts
Year: 1769
Measures: 455 x 350 mm
€300.00

Reference: S49871
Author Simon Watts
Year: 1769
Measures: 455 x 350 mm
€300.00

Description

Callisto discovered: In the woods, Diana sits on a bank and points to Callisto who sits on the grass on the other side of a stream, Callisto is being tended to by two nymphs; a nymph with two dogs on the background; after a drawing by Francisco Vieira.

Etching and mezzotint, 1769, lettered below the image with production details.

From Tome I of Charles Rogers 'A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings to which are annexed lives with explanatory and critical notes by Charles Rogers Esq. F.R.S. S.A.L. / Quantanus nobis denegatur diu viver relinquamus aliquid quo nos vixisse testemur. Plin. Lib. III.. Epist. 7 / Printed by J. Nicholls, Successor to Mr Bowyer & Sold by John Boydell, Engraver, No. 93, Cheapside. Benjamin White, at Horace's Head, Fleet-Street. Peter Molini, in Oxendon-Street, Hay-Market M.DCC.LXXVIII'.

The plates were engraved after drawings in major British collections, including Charles Rogers' own, and published in two volumes in London. 

A very good impression on contemporary laid paper, with margins, a light foxing, otherwise in good condition.

Simon Watts(1767-1787)

Simon Watts(1767-1787)