Description Medium: Copper engraving (etching) on hand laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 32 x 49 cm (12.6 x 19.29 inch). Image size: 32 x 49 cm. (12.6 x 19.29 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Thin paper spots and a few pinsize holes. Some paper lloss in bottom right corner, backed. Tear at top right, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. EGYPTIAN ART, NEOCLASSICAL PRINT, MUSEO PIO CLEMENTINO, GIUSEPPE PARINI, ANCIENT STATUE, MUSEO ROLANDI, SEATED FIGURE, ARCHAEOLOGICAL ENGRAVING | PCO-B2-32 BACKGROUND INFORMATION From ‘Il Museo Pio-Clementino’, Rome, 1784. Biography engraver: Giuseppe Parini (1729-1799) was an Italian poet, satirist, and neoclassical intellectual. Best known for his poem Il Giorno, Parini also worked as an engraver and held several academic and civic positions in Milan, contributing engravings to scientific and classical publications. Biography artist: Vincenzo Dolcibene (c. 1746-1820) was an Italian painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, known for archaeological drawings used in scholarly publications such as Il Museo Pio Clementino.
