death giving audience ... giovanni battista tiepolo's etching ... long been a favourite of mine

etching published as part of the capricci series in 1785

the artist had already died back in 1770

https://www.rct.uk/collection/807843/vari-capricci

but i didn't know that the V&A have an album of his rough sketches ...

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O944789/death-giving-audience-recto-and-drawing-tiepolo-giovanni-battista/