Birth of St. John the Baptist, number 28 of 40, from the album Schola Italica Picturea (Italian School of Painting)
Domenico Cunego, Italian, 1727 - 1803
Gavin Hamilton, Scottish, 1723 - 1798
after Lodovico Carracci, Italian, 1555 - 1619
1769; published 1800
Engraving and etching on wove paper
2nd edition, 1800 (1st edition, 1773)
Sheet: 25 × 17 in. (63.5 × 43.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Awards Fund
2009.40.28
Publisher
Gavin Hamilton, Rome
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Numbered, upper right, in plate: 28; inscribed, lower left, in plate: Ludovicus Caracci pinxit; lower center: Nativitas Sancti Johannis Baptistae / Londini ex Tabula apud Comitem de Ofsory afservata; lower right: Dominicus Cunego sculpsit Romae 1769.
Provenance
Grosvenor Prints, London, England; sold to present collection, 2009.
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