Dominique Feti is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Dominique Feti was the kind of engraver who carried his tools in a roll-up leather case and sketched on scraps of paper in taverns, an 18th-century printmaker who never left Rome but still knew every cobblestone crack by heart. He carved saints like they were his neighbors: blunt cheekbones, rough hands, the kind of faces you’d pass on Via del Governo Vecchio without a second glance. Look up the H Beard Print Collection; flip to Saint Jerome with the lion.

That lion has one paw resting on a skull the size of a walnut, tiny detail, huge quiet.