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Description: | IU, unmounted inscr in pencil outside plate t. r. "38" CRE BARTOLOZZI, Francesco; (Italian; 1725-1815) AFTER 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 after a copy of a Guercino drawing by Bartolozzi and one of six such drawings in the Royal Collection. Dalton may have commissioned Bartolozzi to make these copies whilst he was in Italy considering what to purchase. Guercino's drawing was perhaps a study for an altarpiece of the Annunciation painted in 1638-9 for the hospital in Milan. There are four other Guercino studies for this painting in the Royal Collection. It is interesting that the one chosen for inclusion in the volume was Bartolozzi's copy. The others are all single figure studies and this image may have been considered the most interesting composition. | 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: | GOD : WINDSOR : DRAWING : CLOUD : ANGEL : IMITATION : CLOUDS : PUTTI : ALMIGHTY : RELIGIOUS : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYAL COLLECTION : BOYS : BAROQUE : 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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