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Description: | IU, unmounted inscr. in pencil outside plate t. r. "53" 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, not connected with any known painting, is now considered to be by Guercino's school. The print is one of four showing women reading or holding books in the volume (see Glaha 16460, 16461 and 16496). She may be a sibyl or prophetess from Greek mythology, a popular subject among artists after Michelangelo chose to intersperse them with the Old Testament prophets in his Sistene Chapel ceiling. Guercino tackled the subject in many drawings and a number of paintings. | 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: | PORTRAIT : WINDSOR : DRAWING : WOMAN : IMITATION : BOOK : WEEPING : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYAL COLLECTION : SIBYL : MYTHOLOGICAL : PAGAN : 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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