Muse with the Dramatic Masks
date: label: Date
content: 1779
name: label: Print Maker
content: Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, active England, 1727–1815
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: An oval (vertical) on a horizontal rectangular stone, painted to show: a muse sitting on rock, at her feet shepherds' pipes and the mask of tragedy under the right foot. She holds the comic mask aloft as cupid, right, tries to reach it, over a lyre. The Dionysiac staff lies across her lap (perhaps Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy).
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-94-256
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 × 20.8 cm (10 7/8 × 8 3/16 in.)