The Adoration of the Magi, from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino"
This print is bound in a book with marbelized paper covered boards and a red paper spine, which contains a title page, etched by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and twenty-one plates: 12 plates by Bartolozzi after Guercino, 2 plates by Nevay after Guercino, 4 plates by Ottaviani after Guercino, 1 plate by Bartolozzi after Sebastiano Ricci, and one plate by Aureliano Milani.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Adoration of the Magi, from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino"
- Series/Portfolio: Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino
- Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon)
- Artist: After Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna)
- Publisher: Stamperia di Giovanni Generoso Salomoni , Rome
- Date: 1764
- Medium: Etching; first state of two (De Vesme & Calabi)
- Dimensions: Sheet: 23 1/16 × 16 9/16 in. (58.5 × 42 cm)
Plate: 12 5/8 × 17 5/8 in. (32 × 44.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
- Object Number: 67.548.2(18)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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