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Description: | IU, unmounted inscr. in pencil outside plate t. r. "34" 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.
This print is sometimes referred to as 'Guercino's Daughters' although this identification is incorrect. Guercino never married and his nephews were his heirs suggesting that he did not have daughters. Although Guercino did not paint genre scenes, he was a keen observer of life and often sketched ordinary people engaged in everyday activities. These are well represented in the Royal Collection, some of them tending towards caricatures. No caricatures or more menial activities were selected for engraving for the volume. Of the six genre scenes included, four are of musical subjects (see Glaha 16468, 16473, 16500) and one depicts peasants praying. | 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: | GIRL : WINDSOR : DRAWING : BIRD : CAGE : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYAL COLLECTION : BAROQUE : GENRE : PROOF BEFORE LETTERS : | 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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