Infant Bacchus
Etcher Francesco Bartolozzi Italian
After Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian
Publisher John & Josiah Boydell British
Not on view
Bartolozzi here reproduces a Guercino drawing of the child Bacchus drinking, 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.
