Joseph, the Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus with an Angel Playing a Violin

After Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian

1792–98

Not on view

Bartolozzi here reproduces a Guercino drawing of the Holy Family, a work that the English dealer William Kent acquired in Italy and had etched. By 1762, Richard Dalton owned both the drawing and related printing plate, and decided to include impressions in a publication of 1764 centered on a new series of Bartolozzi etchings after Guercino drawings owned by George III. John and Josiah Boydell, acquired Dalton's plates between 1791-92, and the present impression comes from their reissue of that decade.

Artwork Details

Title: Joseph, the Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus with an Angel Playing a Violin
Series/Portfolio: Eighty-two prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi, etc., from the original drawings of Guercino in the collection of His Majesty, vol. I
Etcher: Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon)
Artist: After Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna)
Publisher: John & Josiah Boydell (British, 1786–1804)
Date: 1792–98
Medium: Etching, printed in brown ink; second state of two (De Vesme & Calabi)
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 5/16 × 13 3/4 in. (51.6 × 35 cm)
Plate: 13 1/8 × 18 7/16 in. (33.4 × 46.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Object Number: 66.659(7)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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