The Zingara, also known as the Egyptian woman. Etching by G. Scotin after R. Dalton, 1745.

  • Richard Dalton
Date:
27 May 1745
Reference:
663735i
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Ancient sculptures in Rome and Florence. Etchings by and after Richard Dalton, 174-.
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The Zingara, also known as the Egyptian woman. Etching by G. Scotin after R. Dalton, 1745. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The sculpture known as the "Zingara", formerly also as the "Egyptian woman", of which two versions exist, both from the Villa Borghese, one later in Versailles: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit. In the etching the woman points upwards with her left hand and downwards with her right hand

Publication/Creation

[London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament [by R. Dalton?], 27 May 1745.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 54 x 31.4 cm

Lettering

Mulier egyptia, ex villa borghensi. R. Dalton del. ; G. Scotin sculp. To S.r Hugh Smithson Bart this plate is humbly inscribed by his most humble servant R. Dalton

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 339-341, no. 95 (do not mention this print)

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Wellcome Collection 663735i

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