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Bust of a young woman and an old man, from a series of twenty-two engravings after Guercino's drawing book, Book on the Principles of Drawing, plate 20

Publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi Italian
1619
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Object Information
  • Title: Bust of a young woman and an old man, from a series of twenty-two engravings after Guercino's drawing book, Book on the Principles of Drawing, plate 20
  • Series/Portfolio: Series of twenty engravings after Guercino's Libro dei disegni
  • Artist: Oliviero Gatti (Italian, active Bologna 1610–30)
  • Artist: After Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (Italian, Cento 1591–1666 Bologna)
  • Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)
  • Date: 1619
  • Medium: Engraving
  • Dimensions: Mount: 10 3/8 × 20 3/8 in. (26.3 × 51.7 cm)
    Sheet: 5 11/16 × 8 1/8 in. (14.5 × 20.7 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
  • Object Number: 53.600.763
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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