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Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99), Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 1783
- Title:
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi
- Additional Title(s):
Cornelia (Fan)
Cornelia Africana
Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Shewing Her Children As Her Only Ornaments
- Date:
- 1783
- Medium:
- Stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (21.3 x 23.5 cm), Plate: 7 13/16 x 8 3/4 inches (19.9 x 22.2 cm), Image: 4 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches (10.8 x 13.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Mother of the Gracchi"; on back, lower center: "(IR31/2224); lower right, "II"; vertically along right edge of sheet: "Juer 1[?2]06"
Lettered in black ink, along lower left outline of oval image: "Benj. West inv."; along lower right outline of oval image: "F. Bartolozzi Sculp."; lower center: "Cornelia. | Publish'd by A. Poggi, St. Georges Row. Novr. 10th. 1783."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.791
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- (story of) Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi | ancient | bench | boy | column (architectural element) | Cornelia produces her two young sons, Tiberius and Gaius S. Gracchus, to a Roman matron who had shown off her jewelry | costume | family | gesture | jewelry | man | mother | necklace | nobility | ornaments | oval | patricians | pendants (jewelry) | portrait | religious and mythological subject | Roman Empire | sandals | servant | sons | tribunes (public officers) | virtue | women
- Associated People:
- Africana, Cornelia (191 or 190 BC–100 BC)
Gracchus, Gaius (154 BC–121 BC), Roman Populares politician
Gracchus, Tiberius (163 or 162 BC–133 BC), Roman Populares politician - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41021
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