Francesco d' Ageno

Francesco Bartolozzi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bartolozzi's print is based on a miniature by Cosway, the latter derived from an oil painting by Gainsborough. This second state appeared in "Prose e rime del Signor Francesco d'Ageno, ultimamente Ministro della Repubblica di Genova alla Corte della Gran Bretagna, raccolte e pubblicate da Girolamo Tonioli" (Prose and Verse by Francesco d'Ageno, lately minister of the Republic of Genoa to the court of Great Britain, edited by Girolama Tonioli), published London, 1790, by Dennett Jaques.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

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