Flora and Four Putti
Flora, or Primavera (Spring), appears here crowned with flowers and accompanied by putti. Batolozzi's etching reproduces a Guercino drawing owned by George III, a study for a lost painting of 1624. The print is contained in a volume that promotes the Royal Collection, first published in 1764 by Richard Dalton--as the king's librarian, who collected art for the crown in Italy, persuaded Bartolozzi to move to England, then commissioned him to produce a large number of prints after Guercino. London publishers John and Josiah Boydell, here reissued these in the mid-to-late 1790s, shortly after acquiring Dalton's printing plates.
Artwork Details
- Title: Flora and Four Putti
- 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: 11 1/8 × 13 1/16 in. (28.2 × 33.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
- Object Number: 66.659(2)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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