A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by S.F. Ravenet after R. Dalton, 1745.

  • Richard Dalton
Date:
12 August 1745
Reference:
663740i
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About this work

Description

The sculpture known as the "Arrotino" (knife grinder), also as the "Listening slave", in the Uffizi, Florence, from 1677: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament [by R. Dalton?], 12 August 1745.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 34.8 x 37 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Servus cultellum acuens et auscultans. R. Dalton del. ; S. F. Ravenet sculp. To Raphe Palmer Esq. this plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient 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. 154-157, no. 11 (no mention of this print)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663740i

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Where to find it

  • Copy 1

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  • album of etchings by R. Dalton after ancient sculptures in Italy

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