Title: Plate 8: Man in a hat reading a book with a magnifying glass; from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Object type: Print
Date: 1743
Artist:  Giovanni Cattini 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice ca. 1715–ca. 1800 Venice
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 17 1/2 × 13 3/8 in. (44.5 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 20 7/8 x 14 7/8 in. (53 x 37.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Men, term: Portraits, term: Reading