Triangulina

Piercy Roberts, Adam Buck1799

Details

Title: Triangulina
Creator: Piercy Roberts after Adam Buck
Date Created: 1799
Subject Keywords: female figures, figures (representations), human body, music, musicians, sexuality
Signatures / Inscriptions: Inscribed in plate: “Drawn by Adam Buck Engraved by Roberts & Ziegler”; inscribed in plate: “Fond Zephyr on her lovely lips, / Has spread his choicest, sweetest roses; / And there his heav’nly nectar sips, / And there in breathing sweets reposes.”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of Ellen G. D’Oench (B.A. Wesleyan 1973, Trustee 1977–1979, DAC Curator 1979–1998), 2001
Materials & Techniques: Stipple engraving and aquatint on laid paper. Watermark: No watermark
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Published 20 September 1799 by William Holland (No. 50 Oxford Street)
Associated People: Created by Piercy Roberts (British (English), active 1795–1828), After Adam Buck (British (English), 1759-1833)
Accession Number: 2001.23.2

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