Francesco Bartolozzi, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99)after Francis Wheatley, 1747–1801, British
Title:
The Deserted Village
Date:
1795
Materials & Techniques:
Stipple engraving
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: F.Wheatly R.A. pinxt. | Good Heaven! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day, | That call'd them from their native walks away; | When the poor exiles every pleasure past, | Hung round the bowers, and fondly look'd their last, | The good old sire the first prepar'd to go | To new-found worlds, and wept for other's woe; | But for himself, in conscious virtue brave, | He only wish'd for worlds beyond the grave."; lettered, lower center: "THE DESERTED VILLAGE. | London, Publish'd May 1st. 1795, by Thos. Macklin, Poets Gallery, Fleet Street."; lettered, lower right: "F.Bartolozzi sculpt. | His lovely daughter; lovelier in her tears, | The fond companion of his helpless years, | Silent went next, neglectful of her charms, | And left a lover's for her father's arms. | With louder plaints the mother spoke her woes, | And blest the cot where every pleasure rose; | And kist her thoughtless babes with many a tear, | And claspt them close, in sorrow doubly dear,"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection