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Description: | IH, unmounted s. on plate b. r. "LAG fecit 1760"; inscr. on plate "Guercino delint."; inscr. in pencil outside plate b. r. "80" CRE GREVILLE, Louisa Augusta; (English; b.1743) 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. Lady Greville, was an amateur etcher, a connoisseur and a member of George III's court. She etched two of the prints in this volume (Glaha 16523).
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 the volume. Of the six genre scenes included, four are of musical subjects (see Glaha 16468, 16473, 16500) and one depicts young girls (16465). The Boydell publication erroneously refers to this print as 'The Cornaro Family'. Guercino's drawing was sold in a London sale to a Mr Hampden in 1760, the year Lady Greville etched it, and entered the Royal Collection at an unknown date. | 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: | PEASANT : WINDSOR : DRAWING : FAMILY : IMITATION : GENRE : PRAYER : FIVE : CORNARO : HUNTER VOLUME : ROYAL COLLECTION : 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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