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Description: | IH, unmounted inscr.in pencil outside plate b. r. "28" CRE BARTOLOZZI, Francesco; (Italian; 1725-1815) AFTER GUERCINO, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, (Italian; 1591-1666) PUB DALTON, Richard (1715-1791) This volume is part of William Hunter's bequest. The prints were commissioned by Richard Dalton, Librarian to George III, in the 1760s. They focus on the King's unrivalled collection of more than 800 drawings by Guercino, largely assembled by Dalton on visits made to Italy to enrich his royal patron's art holdings. The volume promoted the Royal Collection and served the market for prints after Guercino who was particularly popular among eighteenth-century English connoisseurs. They were mainly etched by Bartolozzi, hailed as Italy's best engraver, who was brought to London by Dalton in 1763.
The original drawing for this print is believed to be one of four known studies for a painting completed by Guercino in 1939. It depicts an Old-Testament story from the book of Esther. Queen Esther goes to the King to plead for her people the Israelites whom one of the King's officials has sworn to destroy. To go before the King unrequested was forbidden but if he was willing to receive the visitor he would hold out his sceptre, as he is doing here. Had Esther been rejected she and her people would have been subject to death. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | DEATH : WINDSOR : DRAWING : IMITATION : TRAGEDY : KING : RELIGIOUS : BIBLE : OLD TESTAMENT : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYAL COLLECTION : PROOF BEFORE LETTERS : BAROQUE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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