Artist Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, 1727-1815
Artist after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian, 1591-1666
Title
  • The Reader
  • Woman with a Book (alternate title)
Date between 1727 and 1815
Medium etching and engraving printed in brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 × 8 3/4 inches (25.4 × 22.2 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S81
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, in plate, lower right: F. Bartolozzi Sculp.
Inscriptions Inscribed, lower left: Guercino inv.
December 1885, Kissam Sale.
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)