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The Christ Child and St. Joseph, from "Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni del Barberi da Cento detto Il Guercino"

1764
Not on view
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

Object Information
  • Title: The Christ Child and St. Joseph, 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: 15 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. (40.4 × 19.3 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
  • Object Number: 67.548.2(8)
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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