Holy family
GUERCINO, Il (Giovanni Francesco BARBIERI)
(Engraver)
BARTOLOZZI, Francesco
(Engraver)
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 29253
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Wheatley, J. B
Association Type: Private collector
Date: 1901
Place: London, England
Associated Person/Body: Sotheby's (London)
Association Type: Auction House
Date: 1901
Place: London, England
Associated Person/Body: Fraser, Sir William Augustus (4th Baronet Fraser of Ledeclune)
Association Type: Owner
Date: 1901
Place: London, England
Creation/Production
1591-1661
Mezzotint engraver, one of the few to be a founder member of the RA (engravers were not able to become Academicians); he engraved the Guercino drawings at Windsor, and Holbein's portraits of the court of Henry VIII; also Cipriani and Kauffmann, popularising both these artists to the English eighteenth-century audience.
Role: Artist
Role: Engraver
Acquisition
Gift, 25/8/1958
Measurements
h(cm) image size:26
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:39.9
w(cm)
h(cm) plate size:28.3
h(cm)
w(cm) plate size:39.9
w(cm)
h(cm) primary support:29
h(cm)
w(cm) primary support:40.6
w(cm)
h(cm) album:65
h(cm)
w(cm) album:51.5
w(cm)
Techniques
Etching on paper
Etching
Intaglio printing
Prints
Fine Art - works on paper
Material
Paper
Ink
Location
In store
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