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Sigismonda, published June 4, 1795. Creator: Benjamin Smith.

Sigismonda, published June 4, 1795. Creator: Benjamin Smith.

2-942-036 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Sigismonda, published June 4, 1795. The weeping princess presses to her breast the heart of her lover Guiscardo, which his murderers have sent to her in a goblet. 'Let the picture rust, Perhaps Time's price enhancing dust, As statues moulder into earth, When I'm no more, may mark its worth; And future connoisseurs may rise, Honest as ours, and full as wise, To puff the piece, and painter too, And make me then what Guido's now'.

Image Details

People Information

Creator
  1. Benjamin Smith, attributed to: British, English: Artist, engraver, printmaker
After
  1. William Hogarth: British, English: Artist, painter, printmaker, engraver
People Related
  1. John Boydell: British; English: Artist, publisher, dealer
  2. John Dryden: British, English: Poet, dramatist
  3. Boccaccio: Italian: Author, poet, scholar, writer, humanist
Medium
  1. Engraving
  2. Engraving in black on tan wove paper
Picture Type
  1. Prints and drawings
Category Hierarchy

Society & Culture Romance & Love

Society & Culture Art & Literature

People Other

Society & Culture Death & Burial

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3000x2282
File Size : 20,057kb

Aliases

  1. 160035
  1. 2002.681
  1. 1000044374
  1. 160035
  1. 2-942-036
  1. 2942036
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