1886 William Bell Scott - Beatrice Cenci on frontispiece of 1886 edition of Shelley's "The Cenci"

After the painting (c. 1662) by Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), the daughter of an assistant to Guido Reni, to whom the work was misattributed.

 

This etching is the frontispiece to the subscription-only 70th-anniversary publication of "The Cenci," Percy Byssh Shelley's 1816 tragic play.

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