The most renowned student of Joseph Wagner in Venice, Francesco Bartolozzi began his career engraving* plates after the designs of Italian masters. In 1764, he was invited to come to England in order to engrave the Guercino drawings in the Royal collection. A new printmaking* process had recently been developed in London at this time and although, Francesco Bartolozzi could not claim its invention, his name is forever linked with the 'Stipple' engraving. Briefly, a stipple* engraving is created by employing a multitude of flicks or dots rather than the lines used in etching or engraving. The higher the density of dots in an area the darker the plate will print and therefore, the stipple is a tonal as opposed to a linear methrogallery.com...