H Beard Print Collection
1650
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1650
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
H Beard Print Collection is a 1650 by J. Sympson, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a man named Mr. Giovanni Bononcini. He sits or stands in a simple portrait style—just head and shoulders. The artist, J. Sympson, made it centuries ago, between the 17th and 19th. Old prints like this were often used to share a person’s face far and wide. It’s a single sheet, ink on paper. Museums keep them safe so we can still see faces from long ago. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more prints like this.
The engraving presents a head-and-torso portrait of Mr. Giovanni Bononcini, produced in 1650 by J. Sympson as part of the H Beard Print Collection.
Read the full account in the museum source.
A British printmaker active from the 17th to 19th centuries, J. Sympson carved everyday scenes and curious oddities that were sold in city shop windows and tavern back rooms. One sheet in the H Beard Print Collection…
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