Annibale Caracci Self-Portrait: Seventy-three prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi &c. from the Original Pictures and Drawings of Michaelangelo, Domenichino, Annibal, Lodovico, and Agostino Carraci, Guercino, P. da Cortona, Carlo Maratti, Elisabetta Sirani, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Franceschino &c. in the collection of His Majesty, &c., vol. II
Bartolozzi based this etching on a Carracci drawing in the Royal Collection, making it soon after he moved to England in 1763. The present impression was reissued by John and Josiah Boydell in the 1790s, and used to introduce the second volume of a two volume set.
Artwork Details
- Title: Annibale Caracci Self-Portrait: Seventy-three prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi &c. from the Original Pictures and Drawings of Michaelangelo, Domenichino, Annibal, Lodovico, and Agostino Carraci, Guercino, P. da Cortona, Carlo Maratti, Elisabetta Sirani, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Franceschino &c. in the collection of His Majesty, &c., vol. II
- Artist: Francesco Bartolozzi (Italian, Florence 1728–1815 Lisbon)
- Artist: After Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
- Publisher: John Boydell (British, Dorrington, Shropshire 1720–1804 London)
- Publisher: Josiah Boydell (British, Hawarden, Flintshire 1752–1817 Middlesex)
- Date: 1792–98
- Medium: Etching and engraving, printed in brown ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 20 5/16 × 13 3/4 in. (51.6 × 35 cm)
Plate: 8 1/4 × 7 5/16 in. (20.9 × 18.6 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
- Object Number: 66.659(82)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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