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Guercino
Three women and a child
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [17--]
Peel 2271
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[London?] : [publisher not identified], [17--]
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pencil at lower right: Gillray after Bartolozzi.
Notes:
Reverse copy of an etching executed in 1764 by Bartolozzi after a drawing by Guercino.
Unsigned reproduction of a Guercino drawing owned by George III; Bartolozzi's original etching after the drawing was contained in a volume that promotes the Royal Collection, first published in 1764 by Richard Dalton as the king's librarian.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Summary:
Print shows three women and a child; on the right, a naked child lying on his back under drapery; on the left, half-length women: two looking towards the baby and one stretching her right arm over him.
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