The Virgin and Child Holding a Book
Etcher Francesco Bartolozzi Italian
After Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) Italian
Publisher John & Josiah Boydell British
Not on view
Bartolozzi etched this image of the Virgin and Christ Child looking at a book soon after he moved to England in 1764. Part of a group based on Guercino drawings owned by George III, this impression was reissued by John and Josiah Boydell, who acquired the plate from Richard Dalton in 1791-92.